The Witches is a rather scary children’s and teenage fantasy fiction by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake and has been reviewed by 8 year old Andrew. (The first member of the ‘Stoom Squad’)
Hi. My name is Andrew. I am 8.
I have decided to do a book review on Roald Dahl’s, The Witches. I have been reading the book with my Mam lately.
The book is about witches that don’t like children and want to kill them all. They make a potion to turn children into mice and Luke the little boy and his grandma try to stop them. My favourite character is the Grand High Witch. She is evil, horrible and I like the way she talks. I think the little boys grandma is a bit strange though. She’s a little bit odd and creepy.
I like the way the author writes the book. I think it’s good for kids. He makes up funny names for things, like a “grobblesquirt”. Some of the names he makes up are hard to read sometimes but I think they’re funny. I’d like to know what one looks like!
I like the way he describes the witches too. How they have blue spit and huge nostrils and scary eyes. It made me want to watch for all the clues and see if I could spot a witch myself. I think he has a very good imagination and sense of humour and that is why hes very good at writing kids books.
It’s a bit scary sometimes, like a horror book but it is funny too. I was really interested when the witches captured Luke. I had to keep reading it with my mam to see what happened to him!
I would give this book 10 out of 10. I really really enjoyed it. I didnt get bored reading it because there was always something happening. I would like to read another one of Roald Dahl’s books now!
Publish Date: 1997 (first published October 27th 1983)
Publisher: Scholastic Inc
Number of pages: 208
Buy on: Amazon
Thanks so much to Andrew for his fantastic review!
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