The Witches" by Roald Dahl has made many a child quiver with fear & delight! Witches really are a detestable breed. They disguise themselves as lovely ladies when secretly they want to squish & squelch all the wretched children they despise. Luckily one boy & his grandmother know how to recognize these vile creatures
- but can they get rid of them for good? "A true genius... Roald Dahl is my hero." (David Walliams). Roald Dahl the best-loved of children's writers was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after "a monumental bash on the head" sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990. Quentin Blake is one of the best-known & best-loved children's illustrators & it's impossible now to think of Roald Dahl's writings without imagining Quentin Blake's illustrations."