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Roald Dahl: Matilda (FTI)
$13.90The film tie-in edition of the original Matilda story.
These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: you are not alone.
Matilda is a brilliant child with a magical mind.
Her parents have decided she is a waste of space. And her headmistress Miss Trunchball is a terrible bully, who thinks children are rotten and awful and should be locked up.
But it’s time for Matilda to find the power to change her story, and show them just how extraordinary children can be . . .
With a foreword from Emma Thompson!
ISBN: 9780241558300
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Roald Dahl: Danny the Champion of the World
$13.90“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
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Roald Dahl: James and the Giant Peach
$13.90“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
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Roald Dahl: The Witches
$13.90“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
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Roald Dahl: The BFG
$13.90“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
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Roald Dahl: The BFG (FTI)
$13.90Human 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
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Roald Dahl: The twits
$13.90The 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
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Roald Dahl: The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
$13.90“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
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David Walliams: Mr Stink
$16.90It 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
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Roald Dahl: Esio Trot
$13.90From 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
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Roald Dahl: The Enormous Crocodile
$13.90“For my lunch today”, he said, I would like a nice JUICY little child.”The Enormous Crocodile is planning what to have for his lunch.He’s the greediest croc in the whole river, and he wants to eat something juicy and delicious.But what can the greedy grumptious brute guzzle up?Beware! He’s looking for someone to feast upon… someone who looks a lot like YOU!
ISBN: 9780241568644
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw (Book 3)
$13.90Greg Heffley’s dad is on a mission! He’s decided it’s time for this wimpy kid to become, well, less wimpy and has planned lots of “manly” activities for him and his son.
Greg somehow manages to find ways to get out of most of them, but when his dad threatens to send him to a military academy, Greg realises he’s going to have to somehow shape up … or get shipped out!
ISBN: 9780141324920
