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Historias originales, irónicas, tremendamente imaginativas. Con Roald Dahl la diversión está siempre asegurada.¡Qué asco de bichos! son nueve historias en verso sobre las aventuras de unos curiosos animales que se enfrentan a los humanos para sobrevivir. El Cocodrilo Enormesiembra el terror en la selva. Quiere comerse a un niño y para ello recurre a todo tipo de trucos y disfraces.

Déjate sorprender por una tierna historia de amor que ¡140 tortugas han hecho posible!En la vida del señor Hoppy hay dos amores. Uno son las flores de su balcón. El otro es su vecina, la señora Silver. ¡Pero es un secreto! Ella solo esta pendiente de su tortuga Alfie, que crece muy despacio. El señor Hoppy quiere hacer feliz a la señora Silver. ¿Que se le habra ocurrido?

Disfruta con esta divertida historia protagonizada por unos animales muy originales.La Jirafa, el Pelícano y el Mono son los mejores Limpiaventanas Desescalerados del mundo, y desean vivir contigo las mas disparatadas aventuras. Para ello, contaran con la ayuda de un niño que sueña con tener una pasteleria, de un excentrico duque, una riquisima duquesa y un terrible bandido conocido como El Cobra.

«La cata» es uno de los más brillantes relatos de Roald Dahl. Se publicó por primera vez en la edición de marzo de 1945 del Ladies Home Journal y posteriormente fue publicado, en 1951, en The New Yor

George's Marvellous Medicine is one of Roald Dahl's most brilliant tales of naughtiness.Reissued with exciting new Roald Dahl branding.Most grandmas are kind and helpful ladies. Not George's grandma. She's a grumpy and grizzly old grouch and George wants to teach her a lesson. So when it's time for her medicine, George concocts a bubbling, frothing, marvelous mixture, which is guaranteed to send her through the roof . . ."A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero" David WalliamsRoald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after "a monumental bash on the head" sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II.Roald Dahl died in 1990.Quentin Blake has won many awards. In 1999 he became the first ever Children's Laureate. Six years later he received a CBE for services to children's literature, and in 2013 he was knighted in the New Year's Honours.

Mr Wonka's inventions are out of this world. He's thought up every kind of sweet imaginable in his amazing chocolate factory, but no one has ever seen inside, or met Mr Wonka.Charlie Bucket can't believe his luck when he finds a golden ticket and wins the trip of a lifetime around the famous chocolate factory. He still could never have dreamed what surprises were in store.

'They didn't think for one moment that they would find anything but a burnt-out fuselage and a charred skeleton; and they were apparently astounded when they came upon my still-breathing body, lying in the sand near by'.In 1938, Roald Dahl was fresh out of school and bound for his first job in Africa, hoping to find adventure far from home. However, he got far more excitement than he bargained for when the outbreak of the Second World War led him to join the RAF.His account of his experiences in Africa, crashing a plane in the Western Desert, rescue and recovery from his horrific injuries in Alexandria, and many other daring deeds, recreates a world as bizarre and unnerving as any he wrote about in his fiction.

Contemporary / British English Matilda is a clever and unusual little girl. But her parents aren't interested in her, and the terrible head teacher at her school hates clever children. But Matilda finds a way to be strong, and the results are very funny.

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 seran los elegidos para visitar la fabrica. Charlie tiene la fortuna de encontrar uno de esos billetes y, a partir de ese momento, su vida cambiara para siempre. Mas de veinte mil ejemplares vendidos en el mundo.

Mr Willy Wonka est le plus incroyable inventeur de chocolat de tous les temps. Son usine, la chocolaterie Wonka, doit etre un endroit vraiment magique ! L'extraordinaire histoire du jeune Charlie Bucket commence le jour ou il gagne l'un des cinq tickets d'or permettant de visiter la mysterieuse fabrique du confiseur. Mais il est bien loin d'imaginer les folles aventures qui l'attendent... Degustez cette histoire cocasse a l'humour feroce, menee tambour battant par le talent et la fantaisie de Roald Dahl. Un vrai delice ! a partir de 9 ans

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl is the most marvellous adventure of James and his incredible journey. With Quentin Blake's illustrious illustrations in magnificent full colour. An enormous escaped rhinoceros from London Zoo has eaten James' parents. And it gets worse! James is packed off to live with his two really horrible aunts, Sponge and Spiker. Poor James is miserable, until something peculiar happens and James finds himself on the most wonderful and extraordinary journey he could ever imagine..."A true genius...Roald Dahl is my hero" David Walliams Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after "a monumental bash on the head" sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II.Roald Dahl died in 1990. Quentin Blake has won many awards. In 1999 he became the first ever Children's Laureate. Six years later he received a CBE for services to children's literature, and in 2013 he was knighted in the New Year's Honours.

Danny thinks his dad is the most marvellous and exciting father a boy could wish for. Life is happy and peaceful in their gipsy caravan, until one day Danny discovers his dad has been breaking the law. What's more, soon Danny has to join his father as they attempt to pull off a daring and devilish plot against their horrible, greedy neighbour, Mr Victor Hazell.

Squish crunch gollop A very hungry, very enormous crocodile can't wait to fill his empty tummy with a fat juicy child. He thinks he's clever, but the other jungle animals might just be abl

Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world's No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl!Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork.The well-loved story of a big friendly giant who spirits a child out of bed to the land of the child-eating giants.Every night, when the world is sleeping, big gruesome giants guzzle up whoppsy-whiffling human beans. And there's only one giant who can stop them - the BFG. He's the kindest giant there is and, with his friend Sophie in his top pocket, he sets out to rid the world of the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater and all their rotsome friends forever . . .Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after 'a monumental bash on the head', sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990.Quentin Blake is one of the best-known and best-loved children's illustrators and it's impossible now to think of Roald Dahl's writings without imagining Quentin Blake's illustrations.

Phizz-whizzing new branding for Fantastic Mr Fox - the legendary tale of the most cunning fox in the world.Every time Mr Fox steals a chicken from the farm, Farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean grow wild with rage! They're the nastiest crooks in the valley, and they've concocted a cunning plan to dig him out of his hole once and for all. But it never occurs to them that Mr Fox has a fantastic plan of his own . . .'A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero' David WalliamsRoald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after 'a monumental bash on the head', sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990.Quentin Blake is one of the best-known and best-loved children's illustrators and it's impossible now to think of Roald Dahl's writings without imagining Quentin Blake's illustrations. Quentin Blake has won many awards. In 1999 he became the first ever Children's Laureate. Six years later he received a CBE for services to children's literature, and in 2013 he was knighted in the New Year's Honours.

Estos relatos conjugan una gran sensibilidad narrativa con una portentosa imaginación, un sentido del humor típicamente británico y una ternura que llega a emocionar.

Take a pinch of unease. Stir it into a large dollop of the macabre, add a generous helping of dark and stylish wit, garnish with the bizarre and what do you have? Roald Dahl at his brilliant, hypnotizing best, cooking up some of the most unusual stories ever told. Here in one volume are "Tales of the Unexpected and More Tales of the Unexpected", making this a superb compendium of vengeance, surprise and dark delight.

Aside from being thoroughly debauched, strikingly attractive and astonishingly wealthy, Uncle Oswald was the greatest bounder, bon viviant and fornicator of all time. In this installment of his scorchingly frank memoirs he tells of his early career and erotic education at the hands of a number of enthusiastic teachers, of discovering the invigorating properties of the Sudanese Blister Beetle and of the gorgeous Yasmin Howcomely, his electrifying partner in a most unusual series of thefts.