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“Human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.”

One dark, silvery moonlit night, Sophie is snatched from her bed by a giant!

Luckily it is the Big Friendly Giant (the BFG), who is no ordinary bone-crunching giant, but instead prefers snozzcumbers and frobscottle to children.

But there are other giants in Giant Country. And those giants have a plan to gallop far and wide to find some tasty human beans to eat.

Can Sophie and the BFG stop them?

The text in this edition of The BFG was updated in 2022 for young independent readers.

ISBN: 9780241558348

Human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.’

On a dark, silvery moonlit night, Sophie is snatched from her bed by a giant. Luckily it is the Big Friendly Giant, the BFG, who only eats snozzcumbers and glugs frobscottle. But there are other giants in Giant Country. Fifty foot brutes who gallop far and wide every night to find human beans to eat. Can Sophie and her friend the BFG stop them?

ISBN: 9780141361321

The much-loved Roald Dahl story, updated for a whole new generation of readers with an exciting new interior design and cover look.

‘To pay Mrs Twit back for the worms in his spaghetti, Mr Twit thought up a really clever, nasty trick . . . ‘

Mr Twit is a foul and smelly man who always has bits of cornflake and sardine in his beard.

Mrs Twit is scheming and sly and always thinking of the next trick to play on her husband.

The Twits are so ghastly and evil that they even keep Muggle-Wump the monkey and his family captive in their garden.

But not for much longer! Because the monkeys are planning to trick the terrible Twits to escape and stop the horrible pair once and for all!

ISBN: 9780241578186

‘But…but…who are you?’ Little Billy asked.
‘We are the Minpins,’ the tiny man said, ‘and we own this wood’.

Billy’s mum says he must never go out through the garden gate and explore the dark forest beyond.

So, one day, that’s exactly what he does!

There he meets the Minpins, tiny tree-dwelling people whose children are the size of matchsticks. They live in fear of the terrible, galloping GRUNCHER.

Will it gobble Billy too – or can he find a way to defeat the hungry beast?

ISBN: 9780241568668

The much-loved Roald Dahl story, updated for a whole new generation of readers with an exciting new interior design and cover look.

“On a hill above the valley there was a wood.
In the wood there was a huge tree. Under the tree there was a hole.
In the hole lived Mr Fox and Mrs Fox and their four Small Foxes. . . ”

Mr Fox is a very clever fox – every evening he creeps down into the valley and helps himself to food from the nearby farms.

Chickens from Farmer Boggis, ducks and geese from Farmer Bunce, and turkeys from Farmer Bean.

But now the farmers have had enough, and together they hatch a plan to get rid of Mr Fox for good!

But what they don’t know is Mr Fox has some help, and a fantastic escape plan of his own…

ISBN: 9780241558355

Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World’s NUMBER ONE Storyteller

Every Saturday morning the Greg family goes off to shoot animals and birds. But the girl who lives next door hates hunting.
Now it’s made her so angry she’s PUT THE MAGIC FINGER ON THEM ALL. And very strange things have begun to happen . . .

ISBN: 9780241568675