As featured in Stylist’s Christmas Gift Guide
2020
Roald Dahl's darkly funny masterpiece, The Witches,
now available as a graphic novel from Eisner Award-winning
artist Penelope Bagieu!
Witches are real, and they are very, very
dangerous.
They wear ordinary clothes and have ordinary jobs, living in ordinary
towns all across the world – and there's nothing they
despise more than children.
When an eight-year-old boy and his grandmother come face-to-face
with the Grand High Witch herself, they may be the only ones who
can stop the witches' latest plot to stamp out every
last child in the country!
This full-colour graphic novel edition of Roald
Dahl's The Witches, adapted and illustrated by Eisner
Award-winner Penelope Bagieu, is the first-ever
Dahl story to appear in this format.
Graphic novel readers and Roald Dahl fans alike will relish this
dynamic new take on a uniquely funny tale.
Full-colour gift hardback
Kids will love this hilarious fairy tale adventure packed with clever twists, familiar characters and page-turning fun.
The second book in a fabulous new magical, middle-grade series filled with adventure, wonder and wildness,
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Roald Dahl Biography
Roald Dahl is one of the world’s greatest children’s book authors. Born in Wales in 1916 to Norwegian parents, he was a mischievous child and was always in trouble at school.
His dark, unsentimental stories are said to have been influenced by several tragedies during his lifetime. When he was just three, his sister and father
Penelope Bagieu was born in Paris in 1982 to Corsican and Basque parents. She is a bestselling graphic novel author, and her editorial illustrations have appeared all over the French media. In America, her graphic novels include Exquisite Corpse and California Dreamin'. She blogs, plays drums in a rock band, and watches lots of nature shows.
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