The witch explains her plan of putting the potion in candy and having the witches all open sweet shops. He overhears the grand witch introducing her new invention, something she calls Formula 86, a potion to turn children into mice. When the grandmother and the boy go on a holiday to a fancy hotel on the English coast, the boy encounters a group of witches gathering for their yearly meeting. The grandmother warns him about the Grand High Witch, the most evil and most feared leader of all the witches. Aside from a few distinguishing physical characteristics (they are bald, have clawed hands, and lack toes), witches look like human women, but are awful creatures that prey on children. She tells him many stories about witches, specifically how to recognize them so he will be safe from them. The boy and his grandmother are great friends. In 1983, the year it was published, The Witches won three awards: The New York Times Outstanding Books Award, The Federation of Children's Book Groups Award and The Whitbread Award.The unnamed protagonist, known only as the boy, moves in with his grandmother after he is left an orphan. The film also gives its central character the name Luke, whereas in the book we don't find out the name of either the boy who narrates the story or his grandmother. The main difference between the film and the original story is the ending - in the book, there is no spell cast to change the boy's state back to what it was before the witches found him. Roald dedicated the book to his wife, Liccy.Ī film version of the story, starring Angelica Huston as the witches' leader The Grand High Witch, was released in 1990. It is also said that the grandmother in The Witches was partially inspired by Roald's own mother.
He wrote about these holidays in Boy: Tales of Childhood. When he was a child himself, Roald Dahl used to spend every summer holiday with his family in Norway, where he was inspired by bedtime stories of witches and magic. It continues to feature in lists dedicated to the scariest children's books more than 30 years after it was first published. The Witches tells the story of a brave young boy and his Norwegian grandmother as they battle against England's child-hating witches. And now the Grand High Witch is planning to get rid of every child in England - can anybody stop them? To a witch, a child smells like dogs' droppings.
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