 | Witches : the graphic novel Author: Bagieu, Penelope | |
| Price: $12.29 | ||
Summary:
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! In graphic novel format.
| Added Entry - Personal Name: | Dahl, Roald |
| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: MG Reading Level: 2.60 Points: 1.0 Quiz: 509353 | Reading Counts Information: Interest Level: 3-5 Reading Level: 5.50 Points: 7.0 Quiz: 12751 | |
Full Text Reviews:
School Library Journal - 10/30/2020 GR 3–6-What a brash undertaking! To retell The Witches as a graphic novel and to replace Roald Dahl's familiar style—it would be unseemly if Bagieu didn't make it so utterly charged. The pacing is incredible as panel after panel and spot after spot of long views, close-ups, wide-angle perspectives, and facial zooms relay the story of a boy-turned-mouse who succeeds in ridding England of witches by putting a mouse-making serum into the soup they are served. This may lure an entirely new generation of readers into Dahl's books—at almost 300 pages, it's a sizable, satisfying tome. It's perfect fourth and fifth grade humor: grotesque humans, horrific witches in disguise as beautifully kitted-out women, with high heels and push-up bras, leering close takes of a chef's crotch as a mouse in his pants bulges, and another scene of the man in tidy whities, pants down. Is this in good taste? No. Is it funny? Yes. Let's leave controversy aside. Women fare badly, parents even worse, the message of the boy's acceptance of being a mouse with a lifespan that matches his caretaker dubious, and the chain-smoking grandmother (who has brown skin, as does her young charge) at the center of the tale won't win any awards as a healthy role model, but she is the most loving person present. VERDICT Warts and all, whether witches or Dahl, the book will be devoured by readers and shared widely among peers.—Kimberly Olson Fakih, School Library Journal - Copyright 2020 Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and/or School Library Journal used with permission.
