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May 01, 2000 | ISBN 9780141304700 | Middle Grade (8-12) Buy *This format is not eligible to earn points towards the Reader Rewards program
May 22, 2000 | ISBN 9781101652954 | 3-5 years Buy
Jul 25, 2013 | 423 Minutes | Middle Grade (8-12) Buy
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May 01, 2000 | ISBN 9780141304700 | Middle Grade (8-12)
May 22, 2000 | ISBN 9781101652954 | 3-5 years
Jul 25, 2013 | ISBN 9781101628980 | Middle Grade (8-12)
423 Minutes
Seven superb short stories from the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG! Meet the boy who can talk to animals and the man who can see with his eyes closed. And find out about the treasure buried deep underground. A cleaver mix of fact and fiction, this collection also includes how master storyteller Roald Dahl became a writer. With Roald Dahl, you can never be sure where reality ends and fantasy begins.
“All the tales are entrancing inventions.” —Publishers Weekly
“Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian…[His] stories work better in audio than in print.” –The New York TimesSeven superb stories, from the world’s no. 1 storytellerMeet the boy who can talk to animals and the man who can see with his eyes closed. And find out about the treasure buried deep underground. A cleaver mix of fact and fiction, this collection also includes how master storyteller Roald Dahl became a writer. With Roald Dahl, you can never be sure where reality ends and fantasy begins.
Roald Dahl (1916–1990) was born in Llandaff, South Wales, and went to Repton School in England. His parents were Norwegian, so holidays were spent in Norway. As he explains in Boy, he turned down the idea of university in favor of a… More about Roald Dahl
“Few modern writers have attracted such an appreciative audience among adults and children as Dahl. . . . All the tales are entrancing inventions.” —Publishers Weekly
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