![]() Desperate to avoid this, Lina and her friend Claudia, who is black, get Lina accepted at the Hilltop Science and Arts Academy. This prompts her stern grandfather to ask that Lina move in with him so he can teach her to control her powers. While making a grand entrance at the castle of her grandfather, the North Wind, she fails to successfully ride a gust of wind and crashes in front of her entire family. Lina herself is mixed race, with black hair and a tan complexion like her Asian-presenting mother’s her Groundling father appears to be a white human. This is not a typical gathering, since Lina’s maternal relatives are a royal family of Windtamers who have power over the weather and live in castles floating on clouds. Ice princess Lina must navigate family and school in this early chapter read. A (quicker-acting) sequel is to be eagerly expected. (Bruno meanwhile is contentedly munching away-to the horror of his mouse-hating parents.) When last seen, DaM and his grandmother are quietly resettled in Norway-where he wonders if she'll live out Ms short mouse-life span, and she's plotting to get rid of the world's remaining witches. With his grandmother as a confederate, he steals a bottle of the potion pours it into the witch-delegates' soup tureen and has the exquisite pleasure of seeing them turned into mice, to be wiped out on the spot. Actually, Dahl's wits have if anything sharpened. Forcefed the potion, he joins Bruno scampering about the floor-but they still have their own voices, and his wonderful witchophile grandmother will know what to do. Will Dahl be detected, hiding behind a screen? He hasn't washed in days, but some of that tell-tale child-scent, anathema to witches, escapes. Then the pretty head lady takes off her mask: the Grand High Witch incarnate! To demonstrate her Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker, she's already fed some to greedy, obnoxious little Bruno Jenkins-who turns into a mouse on schedule. ![]() So, when Dahl and his grandmother are at a Bournemouth hotel, and the lady-delegates to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children conference start scratching away (p. THE WITCHES ROALD DAHL ONLINE BOOK HOW TOThen, we hear about Dahl's cigar-smoking Norwegian grandmother, who told him about witches and how to spot them: they all wear wigs to cover their bald heads, for one thing, and have itchy scalps. We first hear about witches: they spend their time plotting to get rid of children, "they all look like nice ladies," they are difficult but not impossible to spot. By a talky, roundabout route, Dahl slyly (if deterringly) takes the narrator-ostensibly himself at seven-into the delicious, ambiguous situation of being a mouse-boy. ![]()
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