Roald Dahl
21) Boy
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Language
English
Description
“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...
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...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
“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
THE TWITS
How do you outwit a Twit?
Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, nastiest, ugliest people in the world. They hate everything—except playing mean jokes on each other, catching innocent birds...
THE TWITS
How do you outwit a Twit?
Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, nastiest, ugliest people in the world. They hate everything—except playing mean jokes on each other, catching innocent birds...
Author
Language
English
Description
Tells how Tituba, a slave, was sold in Barbados to a preacher bound for Boston and became one of three women convicted at the beginning of the Salem witch trials. The story of the slave Tituba and her husband, John Indian, from the day they were sold in Barbados until the tragic Salem witchcraft trials. In the Salem Village of 1692, superstition and hysteria peaked with the Salem witch trials. One of the first three "witches" condemned is Tituba,...
28) The witches
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1983
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Most grandmas are kind and helpful ladies. Not George's grandma. She's a grumpy and grizzly old grouch and George wants to teach her a lesson. So when it's time for her medicine, George concocts a bubbling, frothing, marvellous mixture, which is guaranteed to send her through the roof.
34) Revolting rhymes
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2003, c1982
Language
English
Description
Humorous retellings of six well-known fairy tales featuring surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after.
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, New York
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The Enormous Crocodile has been employing 'secret plans and clever tricks' for years, hoping to one day score his favorite meal: a juicy little child. Finally, he shares his wit and wisdom with the world"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Charlie Bucket has a golden ticket to tour Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. No ladies in hairnets here! This factory is the ultimate candy land with singing Oompa-Loompas and a chocolate river. But along the way, the other ticket-holders meet bizarre fates. Will Charlie make it to the secret prize waiting at the tour's end?
38) The Minpins
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2009
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.
39) Vile verses
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
An illustrated collection of children's songs, fairy tales, and poems.