Fiction
The WitchesPRC
Roald Dahl
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Year 3 / 4 / 5 / 6
Themes
adventure · magic · family
Skills
vocabulary · inference · narrative-structure
Difficulty
Medium
Pages
208 pages
Description
A boy and his Norwegian grandmother infiltrate an English convention of witches plotting to turn all children into mice. The ending refuses to make everything OK — a rare gift from Dahl.
中文版
一个男孩和他的挪威外婆潜入英国巫师大会,这些巫师计划把所有孩子变成老鼠。结局拒绝把一切收回安全 — Dahl 难得给孩子的一份礼物。
Parent's call · SparkRoute editor take
Genuinely scary — preview if your kid spooks easily. The not-quite-happy ending is the most honest thing Dahl ever wrote.
中文版
真的有点吓人 — 容易害怕的孩子要先预览。"并不完全幸福"的结局是 Dahl 最诚实的一次。
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