Per the parents' will, the boy and his grandmother have to return to England, where he was born and was in school, and where the house he is inheriting is located. While witches look and act like human women, they are actually "demons in human shape." They have bald heads that they hide with wigs, clawed hands that they usually hide with gloves and toeless feet that make it extremely painful to wear pretty shoes. She also tells about witchophiles, who hunt witches, which she is retired from, telling of an encounter with a witch which cost the grandmother her left thumb, but otherwise said her witchophile career was a failure as she never killed another witch. She tells the boy that she knows of five children who were cursed by witches and tells him how to recognise them.
He loved all the stories, but he was enthralled by the ones about witches, which she says are horrific creatures who seek to kill human children. The grandmother is a wonderful story teller. Although the characters and events are fictional, children may actually believe the information about the witches to be true.A seven-year-old boy goes to live with his Norwegian grandmother after his parents are killed in a car crash. It is entertaining however, readers might not like reading about witches. "An orphan boy.discovers the true nature of witches and then has the misfortune to be transformed into a mouse by The Grand High Witch of All the World.A curious but honest tale which deals with matters of crucial importance to children: smallness, the existence of evil in the world, mourning, separation, death." -The New York Times BookĪuthor Website: Personal Evaluation: This book is an easy read. Reviews and Awards: Notable/Best Books (ALA), Booklist When they go on vacation in a fancy hotel, they discover that the witches they device a plan on how to defeat The Grand High Witch and her followers. His grandmother teaches him how to tell real witches and talked about their leader, The Grand High Witch. Summary: A young English boy moves in with her grandmother and learns about witches. If you see a bald lady, flat-footed and has long distorted fingers, run! Run as fast and far away as you can for they may be after you! Reader's Annotation: How do you spot a real witch? Look hard if they are wearing a wig, wide shoes and gloves.
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