Penguin The Witches Picture Book Shop

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 Not Ordinary . . .

Most Of All, They Hate Children. Hate Them With A Red-Hot Sizzling Hatred.
And 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 . . .