A retelling of Roald Dahl's sinister story in a full colour, illustrated graphic novel format, breathing fresh life into a beloved classic.
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.
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Pénélope Bagieu is a French illustrator and comic designer, and studied animation at the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris as well as Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design.
She is best known for her webcomics My Quite Fascinating Life and Les Culottées. The latter comprised of 30 stories of amazing women from history, with one entry released each week, and was published in the English language by Ebury under the title Brazen: Rebel Ladies who Rocked the World. Brazen has been translated into 11 languages.
Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter-pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. He was also the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG and many more brilliant stories. He remains the World’s No.1 storyteller.
Extent: 300 pages
Originating Publisher: Gallimard Jeunesse (January 2020)
Editor: Thierry Laroche
Primary Agent: Anthony Goff
Film/TV Rights: The Roald Dahl Story Company
Rights Sold: Chinese - Gingko; Danish - Cobolt; English - Graphix (Scholastic); German - Reprodukt; Italian - Adriano Salani; Korean - Sigongsa; Norwegian - Gyldendal; Romanian - ART; Russian - Eksmo; Spanish - PRH; Slovenia - VigeVageKnjige; Swedish - Cobolt; Turkish - Epsilon; Ukrainian - Zhorzh.
Co-agents: Chinese - Bardon Media Agency; Japanese - Tuttle Mori
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