Roald Dahl

Presents humorous retellings of six well-known fairy tales featuring surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after.

Angered by a neighboring family's sport hunting, an eight-year-old girl turns her magic finger on them.

“Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian…[His] stories work better in audio than in print.” –The New York Times


Roald Dahl’s wickedly funny novels have turned him into the world’s number 1 storyteller. In this collection five splendiferous stories are brought to life by the author himself.
 
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One of Dahl's beloved stories, now available in audio!

Billy's mum says he must never go out through the garden gate and explore the dark forest beyond. So, one day, that's exactly what he does! There he meets the Minpins, tiny tree-dwelling people whose children are the size of matchsticks. They live in fear of the terrible, galloping GRUNCHER. Will it gobble Billy too - or can he find a way to defeat the hungry beast?

From Matilda...

The BFG--Big Friendly Giant--kidnaps Sophie from her bed in the orphanage and takes her back to Giantland where she becomes involved in a scheme to end the loathsome activities of nine evil giants. El BFG (Big Friendly Giant) - el gran gigante bonachón - saca a Sophie de su cama en el orfanato y la lleva a Giantland (el país de los gigantes), en donde se ve envuelta en una intriga para acabar con las detestables actividades de nueve malvados gigantes....

A small boy with a desire to own a candy shop meets a window-washing team of a giraffe, a pelican, and a monkey and together they go to work for the wealthy Duke of Hampshire, who makes all their dreams come true.

"Un gigante rapta a Sofía del orfelinato. Pero no hay que preocuparse: es un gigante con buenas intenciones. A todod nos gustaría tener un amigo como el Gran Gigante Bonachón porque, además de ser muy divertido, posee unas habilidades muy especiales."--Back cover of book. Kidnapped 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 nine...

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.

Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.

Describes how a British plowman unearthed a collection of Roman silver in the 1940s and the events that followed this tremendous discovery.