Publisher's Synopsis

"One child a week is fifty-two a year. Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear."

This is a story about REAL WITCHES.

Real witches dress in ordinary clothes, have ordinary jobs and look very much like ordinary people.

But they are far from ORDINARY . . .

The Grand High Witch, leader of all the witches, has a plan to make each and every child disappear.

That is, unless one boy and his grandmother can stop her . . .


The text in this edition of The Witches was updated in 2022 for young independent readers.

Book information

ISBN: 9780241578179
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
Imprint: Puffin
Pub date:
Edition: Reprint
DEWEY: 823.914
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 324
Weight: 284g
Height: 128mm
Width: 197mm
Spine width: 26mm