Author: Roald Dahl List Price: $6.99 Pages: 208 Publisher: Puffin; Reissue edition ISBN: 0141301104

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This Roald Dahl classic tells the scary, funny and imaginative tale of a seven-year-old boy who has a run-in with some real-life witches! "In fairy tales  witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks and they ride on broomsticks. But this is not a fairy tale. This is about REAL WITCHES. REAL WITCHES dress in ordinary clothes and look very much like ordinary women. They live in ordinary houses and they work in ordinary jobs. That is why they are so hard to catch." Witches, as our hero learns, hate children. With the help of a friend and his somewhat-magical grandmother, our hero tries to expose the witches before they dispose of him. 故事講的是一個(gè)七歲的英國(guó)小男孩，父母雙亡后和挪威的外婆一起生活。從外婆那里，小男孩知道了許多關(guān)于女巫的事情，比如如何辨認(rèn)女巫，女巫如何殺害小孩等等。在海邊度假時(shí)，他誤闖入女巫開會(huì)的會(huì)場(chǎng)，得知她們想要把全世界的孩子都變成老鼠的陰謀。被女巫大王發(fā)覺抓住后，他也變成了老鼠。之后，男孩和外婆一起，開始了與女巫們的戰(zhàn)斗…… About Author Roald Dahl (1916-1990), one of the world's most beloved children's authors. Not only did he create such memorable characters as Willy Wonka, Danny the Champion of the World and The BFG, but he also had a very successful career writing short stories for adults. 羅爾德·達(dá)爾是20世紀(jì)最重要的兒童文學(xué)作家之一，同時(shí)也是成人文學(xué)創(chuàng)作領(lǐng)域的重量級(jí)作家。他的作品構(gòu)思奇特，情節(jié)緊湊，給人一種或幽默、或荒誕、或機(jī)智的美感，具有讓人一讀就愛不釋手的“魔力”。更重要的是，他的作品“忠實(shí)反映了每個(gè)人兒時(shí)對(duì)成人世界的不解與困惑，可以說是真正站在兒童的角度來講故事。這些作品鼓勵(lì)兒童去思考，去克服恐懼。”在2000年英國(guó)圖書節(jié)進(jìn)行的一次“我最喜歡的作家”投票中，達(dá)爾在50位作家中得票最多，名列第一。他的主要作品有：《查理和巧克力工廠》、《詹姆斯和大仙桃》、《好心眼的巨人》、《瑪?shù)贍栠_(dá)》、《了不起的狐貍爸爸》等。