Roald Dahl
1) The BFG
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Language
English
Description
Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater, the Bonecruncher, or any of the other giants -- rather than the BFG -- she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that they are flush-bunking off in England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she...
2) Matilda
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different, but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating terror of a headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull, she suddenly discovers she has a remarkable power with which to fight back. It will take superhuman genius to give Miss Trunchbull what she deserves, and Matilda may be just the one to do it!"--Jacket.
Matilda,...
3) The witches
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Language
English
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Description
This Roald Dahl classic tells the scary, funny and imaginative tale of a seven-year-old boy who has a run-in with some real-life witches! In fairy tales witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks and they ride on broomsticks. But this is not a fairy tale. This is about REAL WITCHES. REAL WITCHES dress in ordinary clothes and look very much like ordinary women. They live in ordinary houses and they work in ordinary jobs. That is why they...
9) Esio Trot
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
62 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shy Mr. Hoppy devises a plan to win the heart of his true love by teaching her a spell to make her tortoise grow bigger.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1994, c1985
Physical Desc
78 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A small boy with a desire to own a candy shop meets a window-washing team composed 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.
11) The Minpins
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st American ed
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Little Billy enters the Forest of Sin and meets the Minpins, matchstick-sized people who live in tree cities besieged by the Smoke-Belching Gruncher whom Billy vows to destroy.
12) Kiss, kiss
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1960 [c1959]
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
308 p. 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
61 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A practical guide to making such treats as: Willy Wonka's nutty crunch, George's marvelous medicine chicken soup, hair toffee to make hair grow on bald men, hot ice cream for cold days, candy-coated pencils for sucking in class that were featured in several of Roald Dahl's stories.
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Language
English
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Description
Last seen flying through the sky in a giant elevator in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie Bucket's back for another adventure. When the giant elevator picks up speed, Charlie, Willy Wonka, and the gang are sent hurtling through space and time. Visiting the world's first space hotel, battling the dreaded Vermicious Knids, and saving the world are only a few stops along this remarkable, intergalactic joyride.
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Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
296 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
17) Vile verses
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Publisher
Viking Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
191 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of rhymes to celebrate some magical moments.
19) Boy
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Language
English
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Description
The remarkable story of Roald Dahl's early years at school and with his family. Like his stories, Dahl's childhood tales are unmissable. This edition has a great new Quentin Blake cover and a new end section of facts about Roald Dahl.
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Publisher
Barnes & Noble Bks
Pub. Date
1993, c1974
Physical Desc
x, 682 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This volume is a diabolical collection of 28 of Dahl's best stories. Shiver to classics like The Man From the South, Taste, Royal Jelly and The Great Switcheroo and hard-to-find gems like Poison, The Wish and Neck. (from Barnes and Noble)