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Roald Dahl
Danny learns of his father’s secret passion for pheasant poaching in the estate of the greedy Victor Hazell, the local wealthy landowner. In the early hours, Danny awakes to find…
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It’s the half term holiday and George Kranky is looking forward to a break from school when a letter from Grandma arrives announcing that she is coming to stay -…
Roald Dahl,David Wood
On a dark, silvery moonlit night, Sophie is snatched from her bed by a giant. Luckily it is the Big Friendly Giant, the BFG, who only eats snozzcumbers and glugs…
From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda come classic tales available in collectable editions featuring beautiful covers and deluxe packaging, including color interior text and…
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From the … storyteller Roald Dahl comes a … creepy book about the most dangerous of all living creatures on earth: real witches. The Witches has spooked readers for generations…
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Originally published: London: J. Cape, 1988.
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Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from…
As a boy, all sorts of unusual things happened to Roald Dahl. There was the time he and four school friends got their revenge on beastly Mrs Prachett in her…
A tale of a girl and a vegetarian giant with an odd manner of speaking, who together save the country from Fleshlumpeater, Bonecruncher, Gizzardgulper and other hideous giants.
David Wood,Roald Dahl
This popular children’s book has been magically adapted into a play that toured extensively before its successful West End production at the Duke of York Theatre. –Publisher.
Includes excerpt from Matilda by Roald Dahl.
First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1988 –Title page verso.
Mr Willy Wonka is the most extraordinary chocolate maker in the world. Augustus Gloop - a great big greedy nincompoop; Veruca Salt - a spoiled brat; Violet Beauregarde - a…
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First published in the United States of America by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1972 –Title page verso.
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In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Mr Willy Wonka opened the gates of his amazing factory to Charlie Bucket, our hero, and four repulsive children. They are Augustus Gloop (greedy)…
Features seven stories, full of author’s usual magic, mystery and suspense: meet the boy who can talk to animals, the man who can see with his eyes closed, and find…
Features six short plays to read and perform. With notes on simple staging, props and costumes, the plays can be produced with the minimum of experience and resources.
First published in the United States of America by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1964 –Title page verso.
James has lived with his two beastly aunts ever since the day his parents were eaten by an angry escaped rhinoceros. Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker are really horrible people…
This adaptation of Roald Dahl’s best-selling story tells you everything you need to stage the play. Whether you want to be as mean as Farmer Bean or as heroic as…
Now that Charlie has won the chocolate factory, what’s next? The sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory now appears in this Puffin Modern Classics edition. Illustrations.
Contains an excerpt of James and the giant peach.
James Henry Trotter’s parents have been eaten by a rhinoceros, so now he lives with his two repulsive aunts. One hot day something peculiar happens and an enormous peach grows…
First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1983; First published in the United States of America by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1983. –Title page verso.
A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches’ plot to destroy the world’s children by turning them into mice. –Provided by…
Scratch & sniff cover! –Page [4] of cover.
Add your own magic to the story of Matilda with this sticker activity book based on Roald Dahl’s beloved classic tale!
Readers of all ages have loved Roald Dahl’s Matilda…
First published as The Minpins by Jonathan Cape, 1991 –Copyright page.
Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka’s mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.
Roald Dahl,Laura Macchiarola
Mad Libs is the world’s greatest word game and the perfect gift or activity for anyone who likes to laugh! Write in the missing words on each page to create…
Matilda discovers different ways one can experience love, whether in a favorite book, with friends and family, or in the unlikeliest of places.
Matilda’s mother spends all afternoon playing bingo. And Matilda’s headmistress Miss Trunchbull? Well, she’s the worst of all. She is a big bully, who thinks all her pupils are rotten…
Poems tell the stories of a smart pig who outwits a farmer, a crocodile who likes to eat children, a hungry lion, a dangerous scorpion, an aunt-eating ant-eater, and a…
Dahl’s classic tale is reissued with a new look. Willy Wonka’s famous chocolate factory is opening at last, and only five lucky children will be allowed inside. But what they…
Now reissued–Dahl’s tale of a sweet five-year-old little girl with extraordinary mental powers that she uses to teach her school’s evil head mistress a lesson she’ll never forget.
The gates of Willy Wonkas chocolate factory are opening at last, and only five children will be allowed inside.
Three farmers, each one meaner than the other, try all-out warfare to get rid of the fox and his family.
When James drops magic crystals by the peach tree, the toy peach starts growing. Before long, its as big as a house and contains a secret entranceway.
Matilda, a brilliant, sensitive little girl, uses her talents and ingenuity to seek revenge on her crooked father, lazy mother, and the terrifying Miss Trunchbull, her wicked headmistress, and save…
The Big Friendly Giant is one of Dahls most lovable characters. Whether galloping off with Sophie nestled next to his ear; speaking his delightful, jumbled, squib-fangled patois; or whizzpopping for…
Originally published: London: J. Cape, 1980.
Filled with excitement, humor, and the unexpected, this entertaining collection of tales–inspired by Roald Dahl’s remarkable childhood–are stories that are not easily forgotten. Illustrations.
Orginally published: Great Britain: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1990.