Author: -Roald Dahl
Title: -The Witches
Illustrator: -Quentin Blake
Publisher: -HarperCollins (Recorded Books Inc.)
Year: -1983 (Recorded in 1994)
Format: -Audio Book
Genre: -Audio Book
Reading Level: -Emergent/Intermediate Reader
Interest Level: -Elementary School
Topics: -Witches, Scary, Revenge, Little Children.
Summary: -This is a book about a little boy who stumbles across witches and with that comes a long line of crazy adventures. But these are not the ordinary witches we read about in books, these are witches dressed up as real people. They have bald heads, but wear wigs, they have square feet, but wear pointy shoes. These are mean ladies that eat children.
Extension Activities:
-Write out your will (the boy went to live with his grandma as per his parents' will)
-Draw the inside of your room/house. Make some changes to your home to help you as if you were turned into a mouse like the boy.
-Write about stereotypes. What are stereotypes? What are the stereotypes we have about witches, little boys, grandmothers? Do the characters fit these stereotypes?
