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Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl’s much-loved story in full colour with audio CD - perfect for Roald Dahl fans everywhere.
The Enormous Crocodile is planning what to have for his lunch. This foul…
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What does a giant’s foot feel like? How about a rotten egg, or a bumpy crocodile? Find out in this book that’s full of the most REVOLTING things to touch…
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A very special edition of the original Matilda story
These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message - you are not alone.
Matilda is a brilliant child with a…
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Willy Wonka is the most extraordinary chocolate maker in the world and he's given five children golden tickets to visit his famous chocolate factory.
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Mr Fox lives on a hill under a huge tree with his family, and helps himself to chickens and turkeys from the local farms. This tape tell the story of…
High up in a tall building lives Mr Hoppy all alone. Downstairs lives Mrs Silver. Mr Hoppy loves her. And Mrs Silver loves her tortoise, Alfie. Oh, if only Mr…
The much-loved Roald Dahl story, updated for a whole new generation of readers with an exciting new interior design and cover look.
Billy’s mum says he must never go out…
A collection of humorous poems about amazing or nasty creatures, including a flying cow, a pig who turns the tables on a farmer, and crocodiles, lions, and anteaters who delight…
The Grand High Witch hates children most of all and plans to make every single one of you disappear. Only one boy and his grandmother can stop her, but if…
A Penguin Readers ELT graded reading series of your favorite Roald Dahl characters and stories! Designed for learners of English aged 7+.
With carefully adapted text, illustrations, language practise activities…
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A Penguin Readers ELT graded reading series of your favorite Roald Dahl characters and stories! Designed for learners of English aged 7+
Learn all about emotions with your favourite Roald Dahl characters!
Feelings are funny things. We all have different ones every day! Don't bottle up a feeling. It can help you…
Learn to cook like Willy Wonka with a new cookbook with recipes from classic Roald Dahl books!
From Willy Wonka's scrumptious candy to Matilda's chocolate cake, Roald Dahl has been…
Celebrate dad in this Father's Day board book from Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake.
A read-aloud read-over-and-over-again rhyming board book that celebrates the brilliance of dads everywhere. Perfect for fathers…
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Wondering what happened to the other children who toured the chocolate factory with Charlie? Find out in this reader featuring a mini story perfect for Dahl fans.
While Charlie went…
Curious about the connections between Matilda and Miss Agatha Trunchbull? Discover more in this reader featuring a mini story perfect for Dahl fans!
Matilda Wormwood had always been an extraordinary…
A Halloween gift book that will delight and frighten Roald Dahl fans!
Learn how to trick the trickiest of tricksters, how a witch's mind is filled with whizzing, phizzing, frightful…
It's time to celebrate the holidays with all your favorite Roald Dahl characters!
Christmas is the most fizz-whopping time of the year, filled with grand feasts, good tidings, and gifts…
"First published in the United States of America by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1972"--Title page verso.
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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…
Witches really are a detestable breed. They disguise themselves as lovely ladies, when secretly they want to squish and squelch all the wretched children they despise. Luckily one boy and…
Alice Harman
A witty introduction to the Louvre's many masterpieces, told from the perspective of the subjects themselves--including resident superstar Mona Lisa.
Michael Rosen
A heartbreakingly honest account of a father’s grief for his son from the illustrious pairing of two former Children’s Laureates.
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…
Filled with revolting rhymes, this title features poor Cindy whose heart was torn to shreds, because her Prince, he chops off heads; Snow White’s dwarfs although awfully nice, are guilty…
Mr Twit is a foul and smelly man. Mrs Twit is a horrible old hag with a glass eye. Together they make the nastiest couple you could ever hope not…
An enormous escaped rhinoceros from London Zoo has eaten James’ parents. And it gets worse! James is packed off to live with his two really horrible aunts, Sponge and Spiker…
Matilda Wormwood is an extraordinary genius with really stupid parents. Miss Trunchbull is her terrifying headmistress who thinks all her pupils are rotten little stinkers. But Matilda will show these…
Charlie longs to see inside Mr Willy Wonka’s enormous chocolate factory. Now Mr Wonka, the most wondrous inventor in the world, has hidden golden tickets inside his delicious creamy chocolate…
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The author was born in Wales in 1916. He was educated in England before going to work for the Shell Oil Company in Africa. With the outbreak of World War…
Presented in a box set, this collection includes James and the Giant Peach , Fantastic Mr Fox , The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me , The Magic Finger and…
A brand new edition, illustrated in glorious full colour by Quentin Blake for the first time.
A BRAND-NEW EDITION, ILLUSTRATED IN GLORIOUS FULL COLOUR BY QUENTIN BLAKE FOR THE FIRST…
The Enormous Crocodile is hungry and ready to use cunning plans and clever tricks to snap up a snack. Just be careful that he doesn’t snap up … YOU! A…
Follow the finger trails in this interactive board book to form and learn very first numbers!
Have fun learning very first numbers with your favourite Dahl characters in this interactive…
The film tie-in edition of the original Matilda story.
These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message- you are not alone.
Matilda is a brilliant child with a magical…
James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that looks boiled and Aunt Spiker is bony and screeching. He’s very lonely until…
George simply has to do something about his miserable old grandmother. She is always grouching and has the nastiest eating habits in the world. Most old ladies like to eat…