This is a true story about real witches who, it turns out, live among us and hate children. Destroying a child is the greatest pleasure for a Witch. Therefore, it is very important to learn to recognize her among ordinary women. In this story, the main character has a smart and observant grandmother who knows everything about witches' habits and tells her grandson how to avoid an unwanted meeting. But all this turns out to be in vain when one day he comes face to face with the Greatest Chief Witch of All Time...

Roald Dahl (1916-1990) is a writer with a non-English name, who made English literature famous in the 20th century. The English call him 'the number one storyteller in the world.' He is on a par with such writers as Kenneth Grahame, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and J. K. Rowling. Writer, screenwriter, publicist and poet. Dahl's books have been translated into 34 languages. In the UK alone, over 50 million copies have been published. Dahl also became famous as a children's storyteller. Eight of the seventeen children's books he wrote were on the BBC's 2003 list of the '200 best books.' All of his books are bestsellers, and films and cartoons have been made based on them.

Dal was first published in Russia in 1991. Samokat has now published all eighteen of Dahl's fairy tales for children of all ages.

Quentin Blake (born 1932) is a world-renowned British illustrator, whose popularity has long since extended far beyond the borders of his native England, and without whose illustrations it is difficult to imagine the books of Roald Dahl. During his long life, he illustrated 323 books, including 35 stories he wrote himself and 18 written by Roald Dahl. In 1999, Blake became the first Children's Laureate, a kind of representative for children in Britain, chosen from among children's writers and illustrators for two years. In 2002, he received the most prestigious award in children's literature, the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, and in 2012, the Eleanor Farjeon Award. And in 2013, he was knighted. From 1976 to 1996, Blake headed the illustration department at the Royal College of Art and mentored several generations of British children's book illustrators. His collaboration with Dahl began with The Enormous Crocodile in 1978. This was far from the storyteller's first book, but Blake illustrated all of his previous ones, and their friendship and collaboration continued until Dahl's death in 1990.