The Roald Dahl Treasury

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Anyone who has ever read James and the Giant Peach or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory knows that Roald Dahl is a man capable of working magic on young people. The wonderfully weird worlds he evokes are so perfectly in tune with children's imaginations that--PRESTO!--he has completely enchanted kids (and adults, we admit) around the world. Contains short stories, extracts from longer fiction, rhymes, and memoirs, as well as unpublished poetry and letters As with any Dahl creation, there are many dark and twisted happenings in this collection with many characters meeting rather unfortunate ends. I remember being horrified by Dahl's version of "The Three Little Pigs". Because of this, I would not recommend this for sensitive readers. Best fit for those who already enjoy Dahl's humor and story-telling style.

Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth Overall, this is a good collection of stories and poems with a mix of fiction and non-fiction. It contains the full stories of "The Enormous Crocodile" and "The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me" along with various poems such as "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf" and "The Emperor's New Clothes". There are also many extracts from longer stories and novels such as The Twits, The BFG, and Matilda. Some of these samples are entertaining on their own but I do feel it helps to have an idea of the whole story when reading them. This book is the perfect gift for Roald Dahl fans and for all those yet to discover his magic. Read more Details This review seems completely pointless because even if I did have anything bad to say about anything that Dahl has ever written (which I certainly do not), his legions of fans from young to old will simply ignore. And rightly so. My husband reads to our unborn baby every night from this book (and others), which is absolutely adorable.

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The first and only Roald Dahl book that I had ever read before this was Matilda which was recommended to me by a friend when I was 10. I loved it and I recently felt like reading more Dahl books. The beautiful blue cover captivated me and even though it was expensive I bought it. And I enjoyed it a lot. I liked the colourful illustrations. There were lovely retellings of fairy tales with twists and personal life stories from Dahl and short stories and poems from his other books. For some stories, it felt as if Dahl was there telling you the stories himself which I enjoyed immensely. I wish that his novels( such as Matilda, Charlie and the chocolate factory,...) were full and not in excerpts even though I know that would have made this already huge book, even bigger. His first children's book was The Gremlins, about mischievous little creatures that were part of RAF folklore. The book was commissioned by Walt Disney for a film that was never made, and published in 1943. Dahl went on to create some of the best-loved children's stories of the 20th century, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda and James and the Giant Peach. I really like reading about his memoirs and his thoughts and feelings when we wrote the various books, but I had never really appreciated them as much until I read this. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2020-12-11 11:19:21 Boxid IA40002005 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier All in all a really rich collection of Dahl and definitely a book I'd bring out to help with bedtime stories when babysitting.

His interpretation of the BFG's voice would have delighted you. And now, thanks to you, he will live on forever in that marvellous character. Find sources: "The Roald Dahl Treasury"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( January 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) This is a collection of snippets (and whatever the appropriate word for entended snippets is) of the wondrous works of the greatest storyteller of all time.Throughout this book, you can delve into stories, poems, memoirs and letters galore all wonderfully illustrated by Quentin Blake as well as other well-known artists, including Raymond Briggs, Babette Cole, Posy Simmonds and Ralph Steadman.