Revolting Rhymes

Name: William Joseph
Price range: $

by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quentin Blake

Interest age: 5+
Reading age: 7+

Published by Penguin, 2016

Classics
Funny
Poetry and rhyme

About this book

This is an hilarious collection of some well-loved fairy tales, cleverly reinvented by Roald Dahl.

When the giant 'smells an Englishman' in Jack and the Beanstalk, the hapless youth gets in trouble from his mum for not washing more often.

The heroine of Little Red Riding Hood pulls out a pistol and shoots the wolf dead before using his fur to make herself a coat. Then she skips off to rescue a poor little pig in The Three Little Pigs.

A not-so-vulnerable Cinderella demands to go to the 'disco' at the Palace and ends up running around at midnight in her underwear!

All these terrific stories are written in verse and are gorgeously decorated by Quentin Blake's glorious illustrations.

About the author

Sitting in a hut at the bottom of his garden, surrounded by odd bits and pieces such as a suitcase (used as a footrest), his own hipbone (which he'd had replaced) and a heavy ball of metal foil (made from years' worth of chocolate wrappers), Roald Dahl wrote some of the world's best-loved stories including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Twits, The Witches, The BFG, Fantastic Mr Fox, James and the Giant Peach and lots more.

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