The Witches

This classic by Ronald Dahl is time honored and very interesting. It's about this young boy, an orphan, who lives with his grandmother, a old lady with a fondness for cigars and stories. She warns her grandson about the witches, women who hate children and have magical powers to turn them into things to send them away or kill them. His grandmother falls ill, and is sent away to recover with him at a sea side hotel. When he is exploring he finds a convention of witches under the name of Protctors of Children, or something like that. He hears an evil plan discussed and approved to eliminate thousands upon thousands of Brithish children and only he and his grandmother can stop it!