Roald Dahl
42) Going Solo
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Language
English
Description
“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 Times
Superb stories, daring deeds, fantastic adventures!
Going Solo is the action-packed tale of Roald Dahl's exploits as a World War II pilot. Learn all about his encounters with the enemy, his worldwide...
Superb stories, daring deeds, fantastic adventures!
Going Solo is the action-packed tale of Roald Dahl's exploits as a World War II pilot. Learn all about his encounters with the enemy, his worldwide...
43) Kiss Kiss
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1962.
Language
English
Description
Eleven devious, shocking stories from the master of the unpredictable. What could go wrong when a wife pawns the mink coat that her lover gave her as a parting gift? Or when a priceless piece of furniture is the subject of a deceitful bargan? How can a wronged woman take revenge on her deceased husband or a landlady preserve her guests for ever? In these wickedly anarchic stories, Roald Dahl explores the dark, sinister side of the psyche: the cunning,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
"Whether it is taking a troublesome cow to be mated with a prime bull; dealing with a rat-infested hayrick; learning the ways and means of maggot farming; or describing the fine art of poaching pheasants using nothing but raisins and sleeping pills, Roald Dahl brings his stories of everyday country folk and their strange passions wonderfully to life. Lacing each tale with dollops of humour and adding a sprinkling of the sinister, Dahl ensures that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Charlie y la fábrica de chocolate es una historia de Roald Dahl, el gran autor de literatura infantil. El señor Wonka, dueño de la magnífica fábrica de chocolate, ha escondido cinco billetes de oro en sus chocolatinas. Quienes los encuentren serán los elegidos para visitar la fábrica. Charlie tiene la fortuna de encontrar uno de esos billetes y, a partir de ese momento, su vida cambiará para siempre."--Amazon.com.
Each of five children lucky...
46) Matilda
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
Matilda es una ávida lectora de solo cinco años. Sensible e inteligente, todos la admiran menos sus mediocres padres, que la cosideran una inútil. Además, tiene poderes extraños y maravillosos. Un día, Matilda decide liberarse y empieza a emplearlos contra la abominable y cruel señorita Trunchbull.
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.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After the daring rescue of a spider, a young boy named James gains possession of some magic crocodile tongues. When James spills them in the garden, out sprouts an enormous peach! Climbing inside, he meets an astonishing cast of characters and embarks on a magical odyssey full of thrills and adventure.
50) The BFG
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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.
51) 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...
52) Flight or fright
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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,...
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
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,...
54) Wonka
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Based on the extraordinary character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the jewel in the Roald Dahl crown and one of the bestselling children's books of all time, Wonka tells the wondrous story of how the world's greatest inventor, magician, and chocolate maker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today. This irresistibly vivid and inventive big-screen spectacle will introduce audiences to a young Willy Wonka, chock full of ideas...
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