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  • Roald Dahl: Danny the Champion of the World

    “A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky”

    Danny has the most marvellous and exciting father anyone ever had. He can repair any car or machine that people bring to him, loves going on adventures with Danny and tells him incredible stories around the stove in the cozy caravan they call home.

    The land around them belongs to Mr Hazell, a rich bully who NOBODY likes, not one-little bit. So, Danny and his father concoct a daring plot that will give Mr Hazell the greatest shock of his life.

    But can they pull off this level of mischief-making without getting caught…?

    The text in this edition of Danny the Champion of the World was updated in 2022 for young independent readers.

    ISBN: 9780241558515

    $13.90
  • Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

    Phizzwhizzing new cover look for this iconic story by the World’s NUMBER ONE Storyteller!

    Willy Wonka is the most extraordinary chocolate maker in the world and he’s given five children golden tickets to visit his famous chocolate factory.

    Augustus Gloop – a great big greedy nincompoop. Veruca Salt – a spoiled brat. Violet Beauregarde – a repulsive little gum-chewer. Mike Teavee – a TV addict.

    And Charlie Bucket – the hero of the story!

    But what mysterious secrets will they discover inside?

    ISBN: 9780241558324

    $13.90
  • Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

    ‘Did we go too far?’ Charlie asked.’Too far?’ cried Mr Wonka. ‘Of course we went too far! We’ve gone into orbit!’WHOOSH! Inside the Great Glass Elevator, Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket and his family are cruising a thousand feet above the chocolate factory.They can see the whole world below them, but they’re not alone. The American Space Hotel has also just launched. Lurking inside are the Vermicious Knids – the most brutal beasts in the universe!Can Charlie and Willy Wonka stop them from destroying everything?

    ISBN: 9780241568705

    $13.90
  • Roald Dahl: James and the Giant Peach

    “Bigger and bigger grew the peach, bigger and bigger and BIGGER.”

    James Henry Trotter is about to go on the adventure of a lifetime.

    James lives his awful Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker, two of the meanest people you can imagine.

    Life isn’t much fun at all, until something peculiar happens at the bottom of his garden . . .

    A peach at the very top of a tree begins to grow . . . and grow . . . and GROW! Inside are seven very unusual insects – all waiting to take James on a magical journey.

    The text in this edition of James and the Giant Peach was updated in 2022 for young independent readers.

    ISBN: 9780241558331

    $13.90
  • Roald Dahl: The Witches

    “One child a week is fifty-two a year. Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear.”

    This is a story about REAL WITCHES.

    Real witches dress in ordinary clothes, have ordinary jobs and look very much like ordinary people.

    But they are far from ORDINARY . . .

    The Grand High Witch, leader of all the witches, has a plan to make each and every child disappear.

    That is, unless one boy and his grandmother can stop her . . .

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

    ISBN: 9780241578179

    $13.90
  • Roald Dahl: The BFG

    “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

    $13.90
  • Roald Dahl: The BFG (FTI)

    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

    $13.90
  • Roald Dahl: George’s Marvellous Medicine

    “The rule would be this: whatever George saw, if it was runny or powdery or gooey, in it went . . .”

    George Kranky’s grandma is a grouch. She’s always mean to George (and not much nicer to his parents either).

    One day, when George is put in charge of giving Grandma her medicine, he wonders if he can come up with his own remedy to try and help Grandma become less of a grump.

    Using some rather unusual ingredients, George creates his magic medicine*. But will it stop his grandma from being so horrible . . . or will it shoot sparks out of the top of her head?!

    ISBN: 9780241558485

    $13.90
  • Roald Dahl: The twits

    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

    $13.90
  • Roald Dahl: Billy and the Minpins (illustrated by Quentin Blake)

    ‘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

    $13.90
  • Roald Dahl: The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

    “The Pelican spread his huge white wings and flew down on to the road beside me. ‘Hop in,’ he said, opening his enormous beak . . .”

    MEET BILLY. A kid with a dream. He wants to turn an old wooden house into an incredible sweetshop full of treats!

    AND MEET THE LADDERLESS WINDOW-CLEANING COMPANY: Monkey, Pelican (Pelly) and Giraffe (who needs ladders when you’ve got a giraffe?!).

    They have just landed a big break cleaning all six hundred and seventy-seven windows of the mansion owned by the richest man in all of England! All they need now is a little help from Billy.

    Can these unlikely new friends make Billy’s wildest dreams come true and take him on an adventure he’ll never forget . . .?

    ISBN: 9780241558508

    $13.90
  • David Walliams: Mr Stink

    It all starts when Chloe makes friends with Mr Stink, the local tramp.

    Yes, he smells a bit. But when it looks like he might be driven out of town, Chloe decides to hide him in the garden shed.

    Now Chloe’s got to make sure no one finds out her secret. And speaking of secrets, there just might be more to Mr Stink than meets the eye… or the nose.

    ISBN: 9780007279067

    $16.90
  • Roald Dahl: Fantastic Mr Fox

    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

    $13.90
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid: No Brainer (Book 18) (HB)

    Up until now, middle school hasn’t exactly been a joyride for Greg Heffley. So when the town threatens to close the crumbling building, he’s not too broken up about it. But when Greg realizes this means he’s going to be sent…

    ISBN: 9780241583135

    $22.90
  • Roald Dahl: Esio Trot

    From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG!

    Mr. Hoppy is in love with his neighbor, Mrs. Silver; but she is in love with someone else–Alfie, her pet tortoise. With all her attention focused on Alfie, Mrs. Silver doesn’t even know Mr. Hoppy is alive. And Mr. Hoppy is too shy to even ask Mrs. Silver over for tea. Then one day Mr. Hoppy comes up with a brilliant idea to get Mrs. Silver’s attention. If Mr. Hoppy’s plan works, Mrs. Silver will certainly fall in love with him. After all, everyone knows the way to a woman’s heart is through her tortoise.

    ISBN: 9780241568651

    $13.90
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Diper Overlode (Book 17)

    When he decides to tag along with his brother Rodrick’s band, Löded Diper, Greg doesn’t realize what he’s getting into. But he soon learns that late nights, unpaid gigs, fighting between band members and money troubles are all part of the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle. Can Greg help Löded Diper become the legends they think they are? Or will too much time with Rodrick’s band be a diper överlöde?

    ISBN: 9780241618110

    $13.90