- Paperback: 48 pages
- Publisher: Puffin (29 Nov 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140568247
- ISBN-13: 978-0140568240
- Product Dimensions: 25.4 x 18.5 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
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- #24 in Books > Children's Books > Humour > Humorous Verse
- #47 in Books > Humour > Limericks
- #91 in Books > Children's Books > Authors & Illustrators > B > Blake, Quentin
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Six of the best-loved nursery tales, retold with surprising and sometimes disgusting twists! Wicked beasts, brazen crooks and a ghastly giant star in these hilarious nursery rhymes with BITE.
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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.
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78 of 81 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Witty, fresh look at how fairy tales should have been told.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Revolting Rhymes (Picture Puffins) (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....
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
I like it!,
By Mehajabeen Farid "mej_farid" (Coventry) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Revolting Rhymes (Picture Puffins) (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:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Are you as revolting as revolting rhymes?,
By A Customer
This review is from: Revolting Rhymes (Picture Puffins) (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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