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Roald Dahl’s Matilda’s How to be a Genius

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Information

  • First edition:
    • Puffin, 2019.
  • Illustrated by: Quentin Blake

Description

MATILDA WORMWOOD is a genius – her brain fizzes and bubbles with brilliance. She outwits her gruesome parents, and even her terrifying head teacher, the monstrous Miss Trunchbull.

YOU TOO can baffle, bewilder and bamboozle your friends and family! ASTOUND them with feats of calculation, scientific miracles, incredible creativity and fiendishly clever tricks, all with simple, step-by-step instructions.

Inspired by ROALD DAHL’S terrific tale MATILDA, this is the perfect book for budding brainboxes everywhere!

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Spanish Covers – Cómo ser un genio con Matilda

Roald Dahl’s Opposites

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Information

  • First editions:
    • Puffin, 2018.
  • Illustrated by: Quentin Blake

Description

Learn your opposites with Roald Dahl’s Opposites, from the world’s NUMBER ONE storyteller (and with a little help from the Enormous Crocodile too…)

Busy little hands can lift the flaps to discover the opposites with iconic illustrations of Dahl’s much loved characters from the one and only, Quentin Blake.

This sturdy board book is the perfect first baby book to introduce titchy toddlers to the world of Roald Dahl. And keep an eye out for Roald Dahl’s 123!

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Roald Dahl’s Colours

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Information

  • First editions:
    • Puffin, 2019.
  • Illustrated by: Quentin Blake

Description

This sturdy board book is the perfect introduction to the world of Roald Dahl – and is just right for little hands. Look out for Roald Dahl’s ABC too!

Covers

Spanish Covers – Colores

James’s Giant Bug Book

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Information

  • First edition: Puffin, 2018
  • Illustrated by: Quentin Blake

Description

Looking for the perfect Easter activity? Enter the world of James and the Giant Peach, and head off on an incredible insect adventure.

Now you can join James, The Centipede, The Earthworm and the rest of the gang in this bug-packed journey through the world of insects.

Perfect for Easter holiday activities; get your hands marvellously muddy and find out all the whacky and wondrous facts about your favourite creepy-crawlies!

Based on Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach, this phizz-whizzing activity book is packed with brilliant bugs and fun activities to try at home, like making your own ant farm and building your very own bug hotel.

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Roald Dahl’s Whoppsy-Whiffling Joke Book

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Description

Roald Dahl is known for his humor! This joke book is an ideal companion to his beloved novels.

Roald Dahl’s Whoppsy-Whiffling Joke Book is a collection of hundreds of great jokes that would make even the Trunchbull laugh! Inspired by Roald Dahl’s wonderful world, these gigglesome gags are guaranteed to raise a chuckle from human beans young and old.

CONTENT NOTE: The jokes in this book may cause reader to become the embodiment of the crying-laughing emoji. Side effects include but are not limited to stomach pains, tears of joy, falling off chairs, and flailing.

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War

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Information

  • First editions: Penguin, 2017.
  • Audio Books:
    • War read by Dan Stevens, Cillian Murphy, Sophie Okonedo, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Stephen Mangan

Description

There’s a whole world of Dahl still to discover in a newly collected book of his deliciously dark tales for adults . . .

In war, are we at our heroic best or our cowardly worst? Featuring the autobiographical stories from Roald Dahl’s time as a fighter pilot in the Second World War as well as seven other tales of conflict and strife, Dahl reveals the human side of our most inhumane activity.

Among other stories, you’ll read about the pilot shot down in the Libyan desert, the fighter plane that vanishes inside a mysterious thick white cloud and the soldier who returns from war but has been shockingly changed by his experiences.

Featuring extraordinary cover art by Charming Baker, whose paintings echo the dark and twisted world of Dahl’s short stories.

Roald Dahl reveals even more about the darker side of human nature in seven other centenary editions: Lust, Madness, Cruelty, Deception, Trickery, Innocence and Fear.

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Trickery

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Information

  • First editions: Penguin, 2017.

Description

There’s a whole world of Dahl still to discover in a newly collected book of his deliciously dark tales for adults . . .

How underhand could you be to get what you want? In these ten tales of dark and twisted trickery Roald Dahl reveals that we are at our smartest and most cunning when we set out to deceive others – and, sometimes, even ourselves.

Here, among others, you’ll read of the married couple and the parting gift which rocks their marriage, the light fingered hitch-hiker and the grateful motorist, and discover why the serious poacher keeps a few sleeping pills in his arsenal.

Featuring extraordinary cover art by Charming Baker, whose paintings echo the dark and twisted world of Dahl’s short stories.

Roald Dahl reveals even more about the darker side of human nature in seven other centenary editions: Lust, Madness, Cruelty, Deception, War, Innocence and Fear.

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Fear

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Information

  • First editions: Penguin, 2017.
  • Audio Books:
    • Fear read by Julian Rhind-Tutt, Kevin Eldon, Tom Felton and Rory Kinnear

Description

A collection of deliciously dark ghost stories for adults, picked by Roald Dahl himself . . .

Do you enjoy being scared? Featuring fourteen classic spine-chilling stories chosen by Roald Dahl, these terrible tales of ghostly goings-on will have you shivering with fear as you turn the pages.

They include such timeless and haunting stories as Sheridan Le Fanu’s “The Ghost of a Hand,” Edith Wharton’s “Afterward,” Cynthia Asquith’s “The Corner Shop” and Mary Treadgold’s “The Telephone.”

Featuring extraordinary cover art by Charming Baker, whose paintings echo the dark and twisted world of Dahl’s short stories.

Roald Dahl reveals even more about the darker side of human nature in seven other centenary editions featuring his own stories: Lust, Madness, Cruelty, Deception, Trickery, Innocence and War.

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