While it's not a replacement for reading the complete works of Roald Dahl, this book is a lovely tribute to him and a good selection of his works. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

His life seems absolutely fascinating, and the excerpts we have in this Treasury are just teasers of the breadth of his skill at his craft.The book includes "moments" of his writing--the shorter stories, and extracts from the longer books. For some stories, it felt as if Dahl was there telling you the stories himself which I enjoyed immensely.

An old wooden shed in the back garden, with a wingbacked armchair, a sleeping bag to keep out the cold, an old suitcase to prop his feet on and always, always six yellow pencils at his hand, was where Roald created the worlds of The BFG, The Witches, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and many, many more.

Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. Lavishly produced and illustrated in full-color, it features artwork by such prominent illustrators as Quentin Blake, Lane Smith, Ralph Steadman and Raymond Briggs. Be nice to frogs -- Twits -- Enormous crocodile -- Pig -- Letter from America -- Letters from abroad -- Owl and the pussy-cat -- Fantastic Mr. The whole shebang is fabulously illustrated by Quentin Blake, Ralph Steadman and a myriad of other fine artists. Information on identifying editions is from Richard Walker’s “Roald Dahl – A Guide to Collecting His First Editions”.

More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. It contains the full stories of "The Enormous Crocodile" and "The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me" along with various poems such as "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf" and "The Emperor's New Clothes". This is a collection of snippets (and whatever the appropriate word for entended snippets is) of the wondrous works of the greatest storyteller of all time.I had learnt even at that tender age that there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far. But being nearly two metres tall he found himself squashed into his fighter plane, knees around his ears and head jutting forward.