Roald Dahl's Marvellous Joke Book

Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World's NUMBER ONE Storyteller! BOY, Roald Dahl's bestselling autobiography, is full of hilarious anecdotes about his childhood and school days, illustrated by Quentin Blake. As a boy, all sorts of unusual things happened to Roald Dahl. There was the time he and four school friends got their revenge on beastly Mrs Prachett in her sweet shop. There are stories of holidays in fishing boats, African adventures and the days of tasting...

An inventive collection for older children and adults alike, Rhyme Stew bubbles over with Roald Dahl's extraordinary humour and imagination. RHYME STEW by Roald Dahl is a collection of raucous rhymes for older children featuring characters from fairy tales, fables and nursery rhymes - as you've never seen them before! From the tortoise and the hare and Hansel and Gretel to Ali Baba and Aladdin, these traditional stories will never seem the same again once you have had a taste of Roald...

Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world's No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork. Danny lives in a gipsy caravan with his father, the most marvellous and exciting father any boy ever had. All the land around them belongs to Mr Victor Hazell, a rich snob with a great glistening beery face and tiny piggy eyes. Nobody likes him, not one-little bit. So one day, Danny and his father concoct a daring plot that will...

CAN a machine really do the job of a writer? HOW would you take exact revenge on a cruel tabloid journalist? WHY does no one emerge from the house of an eccentric landlady? THIRTEEN UNEXPECTED TALES WITH SHOCKING AND UNSETTLING TWISTS AT EVERY TURN.

"Les hommes de terre ne croient pas vraiment aux geants. Ils pensent que nous n'existons pas." Sophie ne reve pas, cette nuit-la, quand elle est tiree de son lit par un geant! Heureusement, c'est le Bon Gros Geant, le BGG, qui se nourrit de schnockombres et boit de la frambouille. Mais il existe d'autres geants au pays des geants: des brutes de quinze metres de haut qui ne raffolent que d'une chose: les hommes de terre. Sophie et son ami le BGG pourront-ils les arreter? Esperons-le, sinon vous...

Create wonderful dialogue to give your characters a voice with the World's NUMBER ONE Storyteller! Go on a creative adventure with Matilda and learn how to write MARVELLOUS conversations and MAGNIFICENT reported speech. These super fun activities will help you to: - Develop language and vocabulary skills - Give you the tools to write your own story - Learn how to write brilliantly authentic dialogue, experiment with silence and reveal what a character is thinking Roald Dahl's Creative Writing...