


rex learn how second grade teacher Erin Warren uses this kid-favorite series to help her students ask critical thinking questions in Book Talks find out more about Mary Pope Osborne in Behind the Scenes and encourage your students to imagine their own dino encounter just like Jack and Annie’s in Cooked Up from a Book. See how the Book Boys would handle coming face-to-face with a T.

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Verbs: pretend, attract, catch, transform into.Real witch’s characteristics (wig, claws, gloves, nostrils, toes.).Physical description (common witch’s equipment and looks, verbs: wear, dress in, look like.).NB: For the many of you who know the story, in the film, the narrator is turned back into a little boy at the end, unlike Dahl’s ending, where he lives out the rest of his life happily as a mouse, with his grandmother. This A2 document is to be used together with the very beginning of the audio book extract read by Miranda Richardson. The film stars Anne Hathaway as the witches’ leader while Octavia Spencer, who was previously known for her parts in The Help and Hidden Figures, plays the good grandmother. If you adore the book and love the film, you will scream with delight when you see this Roald Dahl classic brought to life on stage. Like everything else, it's on hold for lockdown, but why not get your pupils ready to watch it with this spooky resource? This spellbinding production of Roald Dahl’s award-winning story has all the answers. A second film version, this time by American director Robert Zemeckis, was scheduled for a November release. Roald Dahl’s The Witches was published in 1983, a typically twisted tale of witches who look like normal women and want to eliminate children by turning them into mice.
