“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.