Book Description
A picture book of nine comic verses featuring the most ghastly menagerie of ghastly beasts you could ever hope not to meet
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Hardcover
edition.
Product Description
Unsuspecting humans get their final comeuppance in this collection of poems about mischievous and mysterious animals. In between laughs, both adult and child will see in these rhymes the folly of pretenses and the sheer joy of the ridiculous. Full-color illustrations.
From the Back Cover
NOW THE WORLD'S GREATEST STORIES CAN BE ENJOYED AT ANY TIME AND ANY WHERE
Do you know what a crocodile crunches for lunch? Or what a pig can do to save his bacon? Listen as Prunella Scales and Timothy West read you Roald Dahl's gorgeously ghastly and deliciously dreadful DIRTY BEASTS.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.About the Author
Roald Dahl was born in 1916 in Wales of Norwegian parents. He was educated in England before starting work for the Shell Oil Company in Africa. He began writing after a 'monumental bash on the head', sustained as an RAF pilot during WW2. Roald Dahl is one of the most successful and well-known of all children's writers. His books include THEGIRAFFE, THE PELLY AND ME, THE BFG and JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH. Roald Dahl died in 1990 at the age of seventy-four.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
