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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
- Reading age3 - 5 years
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level3 - Kindergarten
- Lexile measure850L
- PublisherViking Books for Young Readers
- Publication dateMay 22, 2000
- ISBN-13978-0141304700
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Quentin Blake has illustrated most of Roald Dahl’s children’s books. The Children’s Laureate of the United Kingdom, he teaches illustration at the Royal College of Art in London.
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- ASIN : B0093XANZM
- Publisher : Viking Books for Young Readers (May 22, 2000)
- Publication date : May 22, 2000
- Language : English
- File size : 839 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 238 pages
- Lending : Not Enabled
- Best Sellers Rank: #285,834 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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About the author

The son of Norwegian parents, Roald Dahl was born in Wales in 1916 and educated at Repton. He was a fighter pilot for the RAF during World War Two, and it was while writing about his experiences during this time that he started his career as an author.
His fabulously popular children's books are read by children all over the world. Some of his better-known works include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr Fox, Matilda, The Witches, and The BFG.
He died in November 1990.
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As a child I was enthralled with Roald Dahl’s Hammer House of Horror series on the TV, as a father I delighted in reading all his children’s books, and now I got to his short stories for adults - The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar – collection. In addition to (spoiler alert) the card-trick-yogi being a modern reincarnation of Robin Hood converting money from casinos into orphanages, he has six other stories – all worth reading.
The magic of these stories is the elegance of the plot and the way the main characters effortlessly weave the story. Seven stories like seven rivers or streams. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is definitely a river in this classification, undulating from beginning with a bored rich English bachelor who cheats on his friends, to an Indian who is more than a conjurer, to the temptation and metamorphosis of Henry Sugar. (Spoiler alert: he doesn't sell his soul like Doctor Faustus, and doesn’t turn into a cockroach; it is almost the opposite).
The Hitch-hiker, The Boy Who Talked to Animals and The Swan are more like fast moving streams. Each treat honour and danger in different ways. The Swan was for me the most terrifying – a tale of two extraordinary bullies and their victim.
The collection also contains two non-fiction pieces - The Mildenhall Treasure and A Piece of Cake. The Mildenhall Treasure is more a slow-moving river - an honourable farmer ploughs a field and… I won’t say more. Read it. A Piece of Cake is the story that launched Roald Dahl’s career and is about the author’s plane crash in the war, echoing (in a very different way), the crash of Antoine de Saint Exupery, or the artist Joseph Beuys. Three amazing artistic careers were launched by these near-death experiences. Not to be recommended as a means of literary or artistic development of course!
The collection also contains advice from Roald Dahl on writing and how he became a writer, and his childhood at school, which reminds us that schools aren’t what they used to be; in this case that is a good thing.
So, for writers looking for tools of the craft – Roald Dahl’s advice is to find a good plot. Keep paper handy and write down plots when they come to you. A sentence can be enough, even a single word - seeds for future stories.
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ANY collection of Roald Dahl short stories is a real treat.
I have always loved The Chocolate Factory (Dahl's original title). The Oompa-loompas were black pygmies in the 1964 US edition which makes sense as most cocoa beans for chocolate have been grown in Africa for a century or more, and Dahl worked there in the 30s. Some journalists involved in civil rights in 1964 complained (mother woke maybe?) and his publisher made the second edition free of ANY Oompa-Loompa descriptions - something I found so annoying when I first read it aged 8. But not as annoying as the orange make-up done for the early 70s US movie, then copied by the naff musical (great special effects, no memorable melodies).
It is a classic BIG CONCEPT story, originally with 10 kids before Dahl revised his script.
Not so sure about other of his kids' books - they tended to get silly, But none are as trite, derivative and tedious as the Poundland Roald Dahl, David Walliams.
This collection of short stories is good for adults and children - who can cope with WAY MORE than paranoid hysterical over-protective parents think, as Roald Dahl well knew. SO let your kids read it! They CAN cope with death in stories - yes, really. It's called childhood and growing up in the real world.


Stories suitable for adults
Soon read though as I couldn’t put it down

