Roald Dahl
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group USA
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
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.
64) Matilda
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
Español
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
"La continuación de Charlie y la fábrica de chocolate cuenta las aventuras de la familia Bucket a bordo de un ascensor que los eleva hasta el espacio exterior, donde son perseguidos por criaturas peligrosas y otras sorpresas." --
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charlie and five others draw golden tickets from Wonka chocolate bars and win a guided tour of the legendary candy factory that no outsider has seen in 15 years. Dazzled by one amazing sight after another, Charlie is drawn into Wonka's fantastic world.
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Roald Dahl penned his first letter to his mother, Sofie Magdalene, when he was just nine years old. The origins of a brilliantly funny, subversive, creative mind were evident in boarding school, and as he entered adulthood, his penchant for storytelling emerged in his missives home from Africa, where he was stationed by Shell Oil, and then from the desert camps of the Royal Air Force. His skills were sharpened after a plane crash in Egypt landed him...
69) Rhyme stew
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated collection of fifteen parodies ranging from skewered nursery rhymes to epic slapstick sagas.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Someone's been stealing from the three meanest farmers around, and they know the identity of the thief--it's Fantastic Mr. Fox! Working alone they could never catch him; but now fat Boggis, squat Bunce, and skinny Bean have joined forces, and they have Mr. Fox and his family surrounded. What they don't know is that they're not dealing with just any fox--Mr. Fox would rather die than surrender. Only the most fantastic plan can save him now.
73) The witches
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Luke finds that saving the world from witches is a tall order for a boy who has been turned into a mouse.
Author
Series
Everyman's library ; no. 300
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
This Everyman's Library edition is the only hardcover edition of Roald Dahl's stories for adults.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mr. and Mrs. Fox live a happy home life underground with their eccentric son Ash. Mr. Fox works as a journalist, but against the advice of Badger, his attorney, he moves his family into a larger and finer home inside a tree on a hill. The treehouse has an excellent view of the nearby farms of Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Ash becomes hostile when his cousin, Kristofferson, joins the family for an extended stay. Mr. Fox decides to raid the farms, but this...
77) The BFG
Language
English
Formats
Description
The BFG is the imaginative story of a young girl and the Giant who introduces her to the wonders and perils of Giant Country. The BFG, while a giant himself, is a Big Friendly Giant and nothing like the other inhabitants of Giant Country. Standing 24-feet tall with enormous ears and a keen sense of smell, he is endearingly dim-witted and keeps to himself for the most part.--
