Roald Dahl
3) The BFG
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Description
Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
4) Matilda
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Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
6) The witches
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Description
A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.
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Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020
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Description
Roald Dahl's darkly funny masterpiece, The Witches, now available as a graphic novel from Eisner Award-winning artist Pénélope Bagieu!
Witches are real, and they are very, very dangerous. They wear ordinary clothes and have ordinary jobs, living in ordinary towns all across the world — and there's nothing they despise more than children. When an eight-year-old boy and his grandmother come face-to-face with the Grand High Witch...12) The Twits
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Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1981.
Physical Desc
76 pages : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
The misadventures of two terrible old people who enjoy playing nasty tricks and are finally outwitted by a family of monkeys.
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Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2010, c1964-1972
Physical Desc
159 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
Features Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka and their adventures in a chocolate factory, and how, together with Charlie's parents and grandparents, they all get stuck in the Great Glass Elevator and find themselves traveling into space.
18) The BFG
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Description
It tells the imaginative story of a young girl and the Giant who introduces her to the wonders and perils of Giant Country. The BFG, while a giant himself, is a Big Friendly Giant and nothing like the other inhabitants of Giant Country. Standing 24-feet tall with enormous ears and a keen sense of smell, he is endearingly dim-witted and keeps to himself for the most part.
"Spielberg offers a gallery of unforgettable images to illuminate a surprisingly...
20) Esio Trot
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Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2009, c1990
Physical Desc
62 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
Shy Mr. Hoppy devises a plan to win the heart of his true love by teaching her a spell to make her tortoise grow bigger.
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