: Roald Dahl - George's marvellous medicine (No:2520)
: Roald Dahl
: 978-0-141-32626-9
: George Kranky's Grandma is a miserable grouch. George really hates that horrid old witchy woman.
One Saturday morning, George is in charge of giving Grandma her medicine. So-ho! Ah-ha! Ho-hum! George knows exactly what to do.
A magic medicine it will be! One that will either cure her completely of her horrible grouchiness . . . or blow off the top of her head!
: Mr Fox is a wily fox who lives with his wife and four children, in a hole beside a tree. He makes nightly visits to the farms of Boggis, Bunce, and Bean, three dimwitted and cruel farmers, in order to obtain food and feed his family.....
: Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, nastiest, ugliest people in the world. They hate everything—except playing mean jokes on each other, catching innocent birds to put in their Bird Pies, and making their caged monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, stand on their heads all day. But the Muggle-Wumps have had enough. They don't just want out, they want revenge.
: Roald Dahl - The giraffe and the pelly and me (No:2517)
: Roald Dahl
: 978-0-141-32631-3
: Billy's biggest wish is to turn a weird old wooden house into a wonderful sweet-shop.
But then he finds a giraffe, a pelly and a monkey living inside - they're the Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company! (Who needs ladders when you've got a giraffe?)
They become best friends, and when they meet the richest man in all of England, there's a chance that Billy's scrumptious-galumptious dream just might come true . . .
: This is the wonderful and warm-hearted Roald Dahl classic, Esio Trot. Mr Hoppy really loves his neighbour Mrs Silver, and Mrs Silver really loves her tortoise, Alfie. One day Mrs Silver asks Mr Hoppy how to make Alfie grow, and suddenly Mr Hoppy knows the way to win her heart. With the help of a magical spell and some cabbage leaves, can Mr Hoppy be happy at last?
: 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 . . .
: A very popular story in Children’s Literature of all times, ‘Matilda’ introduces the readers to the universe of Matilda Wormwood, the main female protagonist in this masterpiece. In spite of having special abilities and being more intelligent than others of her age, she was necessarily overlooked by her lazy brother and torturous parents who constantly humiliated her for pursuing educational activities.
: Superb stories, daring deeds, fantastic adventures! Learn all about Roald Dahl's encounters with the enemy, his worldwide travels, the life-threatening injuries he sustained in a plane accident, and the rest of his sometimes bizarre, often unnerving, and always colorful adventures. Told with the same irresistible appeal that has made Roald Dahl one of the world's best-loved writers, Going Solo brings you directly into the action and into the mind of this fascinating man.
: The witches have a motto: One child a week is fifty-two a year. Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear. The Grand High Witch of All the World is the scariest of the lot, but one boy and the grandmother he adores have a plan to get rid of the witches for good.
: Anne of Green Gables (Puffin Classics) (No:2511)
: L. M. Montgomery
: 978-0-141-32159-2
: Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are in for a big surprise. They are expecting the arrival of an orphan boy to help work at Green Gables, their farm and home - but a skinny, red-haired girl turns up instead. Feisty and full of spirit, Anne Shirley charms her way into the Cuthberts' affection with her vivid imagination and constant chatter. It's not long before Anne finds herself in trouble, but soon it becomes impossible for the Cuthberts to imagine life without 'their Anne' - and for the people of Avonlea to remember what life was like before this wildly creative little girl whirled into town.