Roald Dahl
3) The witches
Author
Series
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.
4) Matilda
Author
Language
English
Description
Matilda, treated as a scapegoat, decides to fight back with brilliant practical jokes.
5) The BFG
Author
Language
English
Description
Kidsnatched from her orphange by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
11) Esio Trot
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shy Mr. Hoppy devises a plan to win the heart of his true love by teaching her a spell to make her tortoise grow bigger.
12) Going solo
Author
Language
English
Description
Continues his memoir "Boy." Recounts his experiences as a young man working in Africa for Shell Oil through his time as a pilot with the RAF.
13) Vile verses
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
191 : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
An illustrated collection of children's songs, fairy tales, and poems.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
229 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Humorous anecdotes from the author's childhood describe summer vacations in Norway and life in an English boarding school.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
Roald Dahl's darkly funny masterpiece, The Witches, now available as a graphic novel from Eisner Award-winning artist Pénélope Bagieu!Witches are real, and they are very, very dangerous. They wear ordinary clothes and have ordinary jobs, living in ordinary towns all across the world — and there's nothing they despise more than children. When an eight-year-old boy and his grandmother come face-to-face with the Grand High Witch...