Roald Dahl

Containing excerpts from earlier tributes to Dahl's work and wit, this is an eclectic and funny collection of tidbits by and about the late author. It also features a missing chapter from "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."

“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
Where did Roald Dahl get all of his wonderful ideas for stories?
From his own life, of course! As full of excitement and the unexpected as his world-famous, best-selling books, Roald Dahl's tales of his own childhood...

The witches: 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. Revolting rhymes & dirty beasts: Did you think Cinderella married the prince and lived happily ever after, or that the three little pigs outsmarted the wolf? Think again! Dahl's animals are nothing short of ridiculous. A clever pig with an unmentionable plan to save his own bacon...

Contains short stories, extracts from longer fiction, rhymes, and memoirs, as well as unpublished poetry and letters.

Meet a hero, a wise old grandmother, and the most gruesome, grotesque gang of witches imaginable!

This dramatization of Roald Dahl's beloved book can be performed in school and at summer camp, acted out at home or simply read together by a group of friends.

Un valle, tres granjas, tres malvados granjeros y un bosque... en el que vive don Zorro. Benito, Buñuelo, Bufón, los granjeros, odian a don Zorro y quieren capturarle por todos medios. Le esperan a la salida de su madriguera, escondidos detrás de los árboles, con la escopeta cargada. Pero no se imaginan que don Zorro tiene su propio plan... ¡un fantástico plan! Three farmers, each one meaner than the next, try all-out warfare to get rid of...

Matilda is a super-smart little girl who is woefully ignored and ridiculed by her self-centered parents. They send her to a school with a mean, bullying principal, where she learns she has special powers that can help her, her friends, and her kind and gentle teacher.