Book Review - Witches

  This story is about a boy (who is never named throughout the whole book) and his encounter with several witches. This boy is from England, but stays with his grandmother in Norway after his parents are killed in a car accident. During his stay with his grandmother, his grandmother tells him stories about real witches. She explains how to distinguish a real witch and explains about the witches' evil deeds.
 The boy meets the horrible real witches his grandmother was always talking about at a luxury hotel. He was hiding in a room trying to train his mice when witches started to pour in to the room to hold their annual meeting. The boy is eventually caught and is made into a mouse. However, the boy runs away before the witches kill him and goes back to his grandmother. He and his grandmother uses the same potion to make all of the witches into mice as well and defeats all of the witches in England.

 I personally enjoy reading books by Roald Dahl. They are extraordinary stories that people would normally not tell children. This book was especially weird and I think it will not be very good for young children. Although the things introduced in the book are fictional, the author illustrates them so well and it seems as though they are real. I think when the children read about the things that happened to the children who got caught by the witches and when the boy turned into a mouse.