01491cam a2200265 4500 1261979471 TxAuBib 830721s1983||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 83014195 9780374384586 0374384584 9780374384579 0374384576 (OCoLC)9299 DLC eng DLC IFK BAKER ILC SINIE BTCTA YDXCP YBM OCLCQ BOS IG# BDX OCLCF MUO TxAuBib Dahl, Roald. The witches / Roald Dahl ; pictures by Quentin Blake. 1st American ed. New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1983. vi, 201 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. A note about witches -- My grandmother -- How to recognize a witch -- The grand high witch -- Summer holidays -- The meeting -- Frizzled like a fritter -- Formula 86 delayed-action mouse-maker -- The recipe -- Bruno Jenkins disappears -- The ancient ones -- Metamorphosis -- Bruno -- Hello, grandmamma -- The mouse-burglar -- Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins meet Bruno -- The plan -- In the kitchen -- Mr. Jenkins and his son -- The triumph -- The heart of a mouse -- It's off to work we go!. A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice. Children's stories, English. Blake, Quentin, illustrator.