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One little girl ate a poison apple and lived the rest of her life in a painting on her family’s wall. Another was turned into a chicken, Her parents were heartbroken but at least they had a fresh egg each morning. One boy became a dolphin another turned into a stone statue, eventually used as a hat rack.

That’s just the smallest example of Dahl’s unorthodox humor. Our hero is an 8-year-old boy who lost his parents in a car accident and now Gramma is raising him, But Gramma smokes cigars non-stop, keeps our lad supplied with ice cream, and likes to go to the casino (“why can’t an 8-year-old gamble, anyway”).

She’s not good a telling fantasy stories, so she tells him the truth…there are witches in the world, out to get every small child.