Roald Dahl
1) Matilda
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English
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Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
2) The witches
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English
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This is not a fairy tale. This is about real witches. Grandmamma loves to talk about witches. Real witches are the most dangerous of all living creatures on earth. There's nothing they hate so much as children, and they work all kinds of terrifying spells to get rid of them. Her grandson listens closely to Grandmamma's stories-but nothing can prepare him for the day he comes face-to-face with The Grand High Witch herself! --from Amazon.
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English
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Containing excerpts from earlier tributes to Dahl's work and wit, this is an eclectic and funny collection of tidbits by and about the late author. It also features a missing chapter from "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." Also featured is Quentin Blake who illustrated many of Roald Dahl's books as well as writing and illustrating books of his own.
6) The witches
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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Luke finds that saving the world from witches is a tall order for a boy who has been turned into a mouse.
9) The Minpins
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Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
Description
Ignoring warnings against it, little Billy enters the Forest of Sins, only to be pursued by the fearsome Grinder, a creature who chases him high up an ancient tree, where he encounters a city of tree-dwelling, matchstick-sized people.
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Knopf
Pub. Date
1977.
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English
Description
If you could see with your eyes closed, how would you use your power? Thats what Henry has to decide in "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, "one of the seven stories in this extra-ordinary collection. In addition to imaginative and magical tales, this book also contains the true story of how Roald Dahl became a writer, as well as a copy of the very first nonfiction story he wrote for The Saturday Evening Post.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This is not an ordinary dictionary. After all, you wouldn't expect a Roald Dahl Dictionary to be ordinary, would you? Only really interesting words are allowed in this dictionary. All the words which Roald Dahl invented are here, plus the names of Roald Dahl's characters and places. You will also find words that are important in Roald Dahl's world. Finally, some words are simply here just for fun.
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
El clásico de Roald Dahl en novela gráfica, que será adaptado al cine en 2020 por Guillermo del Toro y Alfonso Cuarón. Vuelve Roald Dahl, el mejor escritor de historias infantiles de todos los tiempos... ¡Y ahora en cómic! ¡Cuidado! Las brujas existen y se han disfrazado para pasar desapercibidas. ¡Parecen mujeres normales! Pero de normales no tienen nada. Estas brujas son malvadas y odian a los niños. Los odian tanto que deciden acabar con...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Charlie and five others draw golden tickets from Wonka chocolate bars and win a guided tour of the legendary candy factory that no outsider has seen in 15 years. Dazzled by one amazing sight after another, Charlie is drawn into Wonka's fantastic world.
18) The BFG
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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It tells the imaginative story of a young girl and the Giant who introduces her to the wonders and perils of Giant Country. The BFG, while a giant himself, is a Big Friendly Giant and nothing like the other inhabitants of Giant Country. Standing 24-feet tall with enormous ears and a keen sense of smell, he is endearingly dim-witted and keeps to himself for the most part.
19) The Witches
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The tale of a young orphaned boy who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered her fellow cronies from around the globe, undercover, to carry out her nefarious...
20) Flight or fright
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes of Richard Matheson,...
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