Book Review: The Witches: The Graphic Novel by Pénélope Bagieu, Roald Dahl

This movie was the first movie I remember giving me nightmares. Which was funny because I'd read the book and had no issues with it. So I was nervous having another go at it in a different format. But I enjoy graphic novels and the illustrations in this were done in a similar style that we're used with the Roald Dahl books. Being that I'm no longer a child I guess I'm safe from the witches. I think using this graphic novel format is a great way to introduce Dahl to young readers and readers to be. To give this, and hopefully his other, story(s) a boost into modern readers bookshelves. 5 stars of course.

Thank you Scholastic Australia for providing me with a copy in return for my independent and honest review.

Roald Dahl's darkly funny masterpiece, The Witches, now available as a graphic novel from Eisner Award-winning artist Pénélope 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-color graphic novel edition of Roald Dahl's The Witches, adapted and illustrated by Eisner Award winner Pénélope 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.