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The Witches by Roald Dahl
THE WITCHES INTRODUCTION The Witches is about, well, witches. It's the story of a little boy who learns about witches from his grandmother, only to have a few unfortunate real-life run-ins with the creatures. Bottom line: witches hate children. And yes, we know that "hate" is a strong word. Roald Dahl 's witty children's book was published in 1983, nearly thirty years ago. Man, the World Wide Web (a.k.a. the Internet) didn't even exist back then. If it had, we guess the little boy in the story would have been able to read up on witches instead of taking his grandma's word for it. The year the book was published, it won three awards: The Whitbread Award, the Federation of Children's Book Groups Award in the UK, and the New York Times Outstanding Books Award in the US. It even won the title of Good-Enough-To-Be-Made-Into-A-Movie in 1990. On the other end of the spectrum, The Witches also drew a whole lot of a criticism. Scroll down to ...
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