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Roald Dahl’s Words of Magical Mischief

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  • First edition:
    • Oxford University Press, 2020
  • Co-authored by: Susan Rennie
  • Illustrated by: Quentin Blake
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Description

Get ready to be bewitched and spellbound by Roald Dahl’s mischievous words of magic (and much more). You can have fun with Roald Dahl’s language and the brilliant Quentin Blake’s illustrations while discovering how language words in this little book. Inspired by the World’s No. 1 storyteller, this book will give you all you need to create your own words. If you love Roald Dahl then this is the perfect introduction to get into learning how language works – make up your own words, have fun and be bold with (magical) words!

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Roald Dahl’s Rotsome and Repulsant Words

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  • First edition:
    • Oxford University Press, 2020
  • Co-authored by: Susan Rennie
  • Illustrated by: Quentin Blake
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Description

Get ready to be goose-gruggled and fluckgungled with disgusterous, rotsome and repulsant words (and much more). You can have fun with Roald Dahl’s language and the brilliant Quentin Blake’s illustrations while discovering how language works in this little hardback book. Inspired by the World’s No 1 storyteller, this book will give you all you need to start learning how language works – make up your own words, have fun and be bold with words!

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Oxford Roald Dahl Thesaurus

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  • First edition:
    • Oxford University Press, 2019
  • Co-authored by: Susan Rennie
  • Illustrated by: Quentin Blake
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Description

This is a treasure trove of lickswishy language to inspire children to write creatively. Organised thematically, it dives into the Roald Dahl worlds of Human Beans, the Natural World, Magical World and the World of Words. Working in themes makes it easy for children to discover hundreds of invented words and real words for their own stories. It is full of endlessly inventive vocabulary ideas and information, with a striking and fun design using Quentin Blake’s artwork and a mixture of photographs too. Compiled by Susan Rennie, the lexicographer who created the Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary and Roald Dahl’s Rotsome and Repulsant Words, this captures Oxford University Press’s language expertise, mixes it with the magic of Roald Dahl’s language and delivers aunique and inspired book that is a joy to own.

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How to Have a Frightful Halloween

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  • First published: Grosset & Dunlap, 2024.
  • Illustrated by: Quentin Blake
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A Halloween gift book that will delight and frighten Roald Dahl fans!

Learn how to trick the trickiest of tricksters, how a witch’s mind is filled with whizzing, phizzing, frightful thoughts, and how to get the most out of your tastiest treats with this ghoulishly great gift book!

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Roald Dahl’s Phizz-Whizzing Christmas Book

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  • First published: Grosset & Dunlap, 2024.
  • Illustrated by: Quentin Blake
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It’s time to celebrate the holidays with all your favorite Roald Dahl characters!

Christmas is the most fizz-whopping time of the year, filled with grand feasts, good tidings, and gifts that make you feel like you won a golden ticket. Celebrate the holidays with this delightfully festive gift book!

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How to be a Spot a Witch

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  • First edition:
    • Grosset & Dunlap, 2020.
  • Illustrated by: Carmi Grau
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Reimagine Dahl’s beloved classic in this gorgeous, hand-lettered gift book perfect for The Witches fans of all ages! Featuring the best and brightest lines from Roald Dahl’s magical story, this book displays the iconic quotes in creepy, whimsical, and artful calligraphy.

Highly illustrated, with quotes and passages from one of Roald Dahl’s most beloved books, this gift book reimagines The Witches, rendering its lines in gorgeous, creepy, and whimsical calligraphy — making this a must-have for any Dahl collection!

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Matilda’s Jokes For Awesome Kids

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  • First edition:
    • Puffin, 2019.
  • Illustrated by: Quentin Blake
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What do you get if you add 25 and 917, then subtract 765 and divide the answer by 33?
A headache. (Unless you’re Matilda!)

Matilda’s Jokes for Clever Kids would even make the Trunchbull laugh!

Narrated by Matilda herself, this joke book is stuffed full of gigglesome gags, silly puns, brain-tickling riddles, and the Trunchbull’s favourite insults- guaranteed to raise a chuckle from human beans young and old.

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Matilda: Be Outrageous – Big Ideas from a Small Girl

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  • First edition:
    • Grosset & Dunlap, 2019.
  • Illustrated by: Quentin Blake
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Am I a phenomenon? It is quite possible that you are.

Reimagine Dahl’s beloved classic in this gorgeous, hand-lettered gift book perfect for Matilda fans of all ages! Featuring the best and brightest lines from Roald Dahl’s magical story, this book displays the iconic quotes in whimsical and artful calligraphy, while reminding readers to be, first and foremost, outrageous!

Highly illustrated, with quotes, lines, and passages from one of Roald Dahl’s most beloved books, this gift book presents a whole lot of big ideas from one precocious little girl. Each spread features the most memorable lines from Matilda, rendering them in gorgeous and whimsical calligraphy — making this a must-have for any Dahl collection!

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Matilda’s How to be Brave

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  • First edition:
    • Puffin, 2019.
  • Illustrated by: Quentin Blake
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Matilda is BRAVE and BRILLIANT – and you can be too!

Packed with GAMES, JOKES, QUIZZES and much more, this marvellous book has all the tips and tricks you need to become a REAL HERO and even stand up to THE TERRIBLE TRUNCHBULL.

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