Roald Dahl

"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,...

George decides that his grumpy, selfish old grandmother must be a witch and concocts some marvelous medicine to take care of her.

The Twits: The misadventures of two terrible old people who enjoy playing nasty tricks and are finally outwitted by a family of monkeys. The minpins: 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. The magic finger: Angered by a neighboring family's sport hunting, an eight-year-old girl turns her magic finger on them.

"But only five lucky children will be allowed inside. And the winners are: Augustus Gloop, an enormously fat boy whose hobby is eating; Veruca Salt, a spoiled-rotten brat whose parents are wrapped around her little finger; Violet Beauregarde, a dim-witted gum-chewer with the fastest jaws around; Mike Teavee, a toy pistol-toting gangster-in-training who is obsessed with television; and Charlie Bucket, Our Hero, a boy who is honest and kind, brave and...

Experience two of Roald Dahl's greatest collections of poems combined into one audiobook. Dahl gives an amusing interpretation of the world's most famous fairy tales in Revolting Rhymes, while Dirty Beasts tells laughable tales about pigs, anteaters, toads, and porcupines.