- Paperback: 48 pages
- Publisher: Puffin Books; New edition edition (23 Feb 1984)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140504230
- ISBN-13: 978-0140504231
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 16.8 x 0.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (44 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 255,293 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Verses featuring mayhem, greed, betrayals and murder, from two gifted collaborators. ("Publishers Weekly") A sophisticated spoof. ("The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books")
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A stomach churning collection of witty rhymes
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79 of 82 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Imbued with typical Dahl wit these rhymes skip and slither along at a sweetly irreverent and highly infectious pace.
This book takes some of our best known fairy stories, from Cinderella to Red Riding Hood and gives them a twist, a mischievous and thoroughly enjoyable twist.... read these ryhmes and you will never think of Red Riding Hood in quite the same way.
Although the topic of these rhymes are essentially children's stories, don't deprive yourself of a good, healthy dose of Dahl's deliciously revolting prose.
Read them aloud to children and you'll find yourself led by the rhyme and building the tension, hamming it up as Red Riding Hood, "one eyelid flickers, she whips the pistol from her knickers...", as Dahl manages to covey the naughty in a thoroughly refreshingly, innocent way.
An enjoyably revolting and delightfully digestible book. You won't be dissapointed, Dahl is an intelligent and inspired master of mischief. You might even be tempted to write a review of your own....
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Everyone knows the original stories of Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Little Red Riding Hood and The Wolf and The Three Little Pigs, written by Charles Perrault (Cinderella), Brothers Grimm (all the rest); but Roald Dahl has changed the stories and put in some gruesome humour - these rewrites are not suitable for grumpy old grown ups so be aware! My favourite story out of all of Dahl's altered fairy tales is definitely Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf & the three little pigs because they are linked together with Little Red Riding Hood who gives the wolf and the pigs' horrible endings! I would rate this book 9/ 10 because it could have had another one or two other famous tales included like The Princess and the Pea but apart from that it was really good. I would recommend it to kids only and parents should not even have a peep because they cannot enjoy such humorous things like us.
29 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Revolting Rhymes is a great way to lift your imagination,and it has to be the funnyist book I've read so far!The book has fairy tales that are retold so that they rhyme and sound funny.Btw...READ IT!
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Hilariously Gross!
I bought this book for my 9 and 7 year old girls, as I have fantastic memories of this book as a child. Read more
Published 1 month ago by thefluff
Dahl Appeal
Having shared Revolting Rhymes with my own children I was thrilled to see my grandchildren enjoying them just as much. Children love Dahl's great sense of the outrageous! Read more
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Fantastic
I got this book for myself, I am a Roald Dahl reader since I have memory and I have a personal interest in new versions of bedtime stories as well. Read more
Published 2 months ago by M.S.M.
Not the whole story !
I would never write a poor review for a Dahl book, but the problem with this title is that the rhymes within this book are not complete. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mr. Graham S. King
Just as ordered
Already written a review. Item was just as ordered and now enjoying reading it. Although it arrived after date, the people was World books were very prompt and accomodating and... Read more
Published 6 months ago by C. Francis
Again.....another great read!
Really, what can I say, this is yet another in a long line of great reads from the Master Writer!!
I bought this for my niece & she just could not put it down!
I bought this for my niece & she just could not put it down!
Published 7 months ago by Lyn Parr
Revoltingly Fabulous!
I absolutely loved this book as a child so had no qualms about buying it as birthday presents for two of the children in our family. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Nikki
Best book
i love this book. My parents bought it for me over 20 years agaon. I love the bit were "she pulled a pistol from her knickers"
Published 9 months ago by Mands
magic!!
My children loved this book as much as I did when I was a child. wonderful reading, if but a bit cheeky :)
Published 10 months ago by kinahan
Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes
This book was a gift for my 8 year old daughter who is a real book worm. She had been reading some of the revolting rhymes in class so asked for this for her birthday. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Steve Wallace
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