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Revolting Rhymes (Picture Puffins) [Illustrated] (Paperback)

by Roald Dahl (Author), Quentin Blake (Illustrator)
4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)

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  • 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 (21 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 73,282 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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.

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.

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66 of 69 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Witty, fresh look at how fairy tales should have been told., 2 Jan 2002
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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....

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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Are you as revolting as revolting rhymes?, 18 Sep 2003
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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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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars I like it!, 17 Feb 2008
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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Book.
Every child who knows the Traditional Fairy Tales should read this wonderful book. It's so fuuny!I'd say age 5+.
Published 21 hours ago by Bookread

5.0 out of 5 stars 2nd generation favourite
This old family favourite has it all........it's funny, familiar and, best of all.....it's rude! DG
Published 3 days ago by Mrs. Dorothy Goddard

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Kids Book
Bought this book after I watched the BBC2 kids poetry competition with my 9 year old daughter, we loved the Red Riding Hood poem with it's great line 'she whipped a pistol from... Read more
Published 9 days ago by Mr. Steven Brierley

5.0 out of 5 stars Re-telling tales
Revolting Rhymes
I've loved this book since I first read an extract of it in a text book: it was an excerpt from "Miss Red-riding Hood and the Wolf". Read more
Published 3 months ago by M. Gastón-Sierra

5.0 out of 5 stars Amusing, Amusing, Amusing!
This is an excellent poetry book by one of the best children's writers of all time.
Never aging or boring Road Dahl brings a new light to those fairytales we all know and... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Melanie Bagshaw

5.0 out of 5 stars Still laughing
I was read this book at school, about 18 years ago now. Children do find it funny and so do adults. Okay so I didn't get all the jokes when I was 9 or 10, but Red Riding Hood's... Read more
Published on 14 Nov 2006 by Lina

3.0 out of 5 stars Contains swearing. Not for young children.
I bought this from amazon a few weeks ago, and was alarmed when I read the first rhyme, and found Prince Charming calling Cinderella a "sl*t". Returned the book immediately. Read more
Published on 2 Nov 2006 by Jane Louise

5.0 out of 5 stars The children loved it
I teach a Year 5 class and we ahve recently been doing a someone staid narrative poetry topic in Literacy. Read more
Published on 24 Feb 2006 by Lucy Chavannes

5.0 out of 5 stars Imaginative and fun
Roald Dahl is so witty and imaginative, this has to be a book for any kids collection. Noticed one reviwer pathetically said it was for teenagers and not for her young... Read more
Published on 12 Feb 2006 by Mr Cheese

2.0 out of 5 stars A children's book?
Has somebody missed the point somewhere? Roald Dahl also wrote books for adults and I suspect this is one of them. Read more
Published on 2 Jan 2006

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