The Witches
讀書樂編號:4299
推介人: 黃韻玲校友
In the world of fantansy, the witches establish an organization aiming at destroy children. The worldwide organization is particularly powerful in Norway, where the the witches have their seat of power. At first, the book describes how each witch vanquish at least one child a week. An orphaned boy being the book's narrator is being taught by his grandmother about recognizing witches in order to survive. She also tells him some story of her childhood friends. Of course, the crafty witches have done much to pretend a women but they have some small clues symbolizing their identity. One day during the summer holidays, he spots a weird woman wearing gloves, which hide their talons, staring him with an ghostly smile. He shrieks for grandmother and the witch escaped. They both are terrified there is a witch nearby. Becoming ill, the grandmother leads her grandson to move to a small seaside. They stay at a hotel booked in by the witches to hold their meeting. At the meeting, the Grand High Witch reveals her ultimate plan: the English witches should buy lots of sweet shops and give free poisonous chocolate which change anyone eating it into a mouse at 9am they day after the children have eaten it. Under the conspiration, the teaches will panic and kill the mice. Shortly after, the witches smell the narrator's presence and turn him into a mouse instantly! The transformed child finally outwit the witches and save the children there. The ending, a celebration of courage and wisdom against all disaster, brings this ingenious story to a gloriously colourful conclusion.