Roald Dahl
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
118 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
Containing excerpts from earlier tributes to Dahl's work and wit, this is an eclectic and funny collection of tidbits by and about the late author. It also features a missing chapter from "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
180 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
James es un niño huérfano que vive con dos tías muy severas que le hacen la vida imposible. Pero un día, un extraño personaje le regala un cucurucho de bolitas mágicas que hacen crecer sorprendentemente al viejo melocotonero del patio. Montado en un melocotón gigante, James inicia un viaje fascinante por el mundo entero.
23) Matilda
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Matilda es una ávida lectora de solo cinco años. Sensible e inteligente, todos la admiran menos sus mediocres padres, que la consideran una inútil. Además, tiene poderes extraños y maravillosos... Un día, Matilda decide liberarse y empieza a emplearlos contra la abominable y cruel señorita Trunchbull.
24) Boy
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Description
“Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian…[His] stories work better in audio than in print.” –The New York Times
Where did Roald Dahl get all of his wonderful ideas for stories?
From his own life, of course! As full of excitement and the unexpected as his world-famous, best-selling books, Roald Dahl's tales of his own childhood...
Where did Roald Dahl get all of his wonderful ideas for stories?
From his own life, of course! As full of excitement and the unexpected as his world-famous, best-selling books, Roald Dahl's tales of his own childhood...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Formats
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...
27) Wonka
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2023
Description
A #1 New York Times Bestseller!
Based on the major motion picture—an intoxicating mix of magic and music, mayhem and emotion, all told with fabulous heart and humor—Wonka introduces readers to a young Willy Wonka, chock-full of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time . . . proving that the best things in life begin with a dream, and if you’re lucky enough to meet Willy Wonka, anything...
Based on the major motion picture—an intoxicating mix of magic and music, mayhem and emotion, all told with fabulous heart and humor—Wonka introduces readers to a young Willy Wonka, chock-full of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time . . . proving that the best things in life begin with a dream, and if you’re lucky enough to meet Willy Wonka, anything...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2016
Description
“Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian…[His] stories work better in audio than in print.” –The New York Times
Roald Dahl’s wickedly funny novels have turned him into the world’s number 1 storyteller. In this collection five splendiferous stories are brought to life by the author himself.
Charlie...
Roald Dahl’s wickedly funny novels have turned him into the world’s number 1 storyteller. In this collection five splendiferous stories are brought to life by the author himself.
Charlie...
30) Esio Trot
Author
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.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2013
Description
“Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian…[His] stories work better in audio than in print.” –The New York Times
FANTASTIC MR. FOX
Nobody outfoxes Fantastic Mr. Fox!
Someone's been stealing from the three meanest farmers around, and they know the identity of the thief—it's Fantastic Mr. Fox! Working alone they...
FANTASTIC MR. FOX
Nobody outfoxes Fantastic Mr. Fox!
Someone's been stealing from the three meanest farmers around, and they know the identity of the thief—it's Fantastic Mr. Fox! Working alone they...
32) El superzorro
Author
Series
Juvenil Alfaguara volume 5
Publisher
Ediciones Alfaguara
Pub. Date
c1970
Physical Desc
153 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
98, 15 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
Ignoring warnings against it, little Billy enters the Forest of Sins, only to be pursued by the fearsome Grinder, a creature who chases him high up an ancient tree, where he encounters a city of tree-dwelling, matchstick-sized people.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (625 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Twenty-five episodes inspired by the dark humor of Roald Dahl, this series of brilliantly written and acted stand alone suspense stories was an instant hit that became an international phenomenon that starred a cavalcade of top stars. Seasons 1 & 2.
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
296 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
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 herself, they may be the only ones who can stop the witches' latest plot to stamp out every last child in the country!
36) Wonka
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Description
This enthralling combination of magic and music, mayhem and emotion, introduces readers to a young Willy Wonka who is determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time and prove that the best things in life begin with a dream.
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (314 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Matilda is the smart little girl who's woefully misunderstood by her parents, her brother, and an evil school principal.
In an old house in Paris ... lives little but fearless Madeline who is the heroine of this family comedy based on the classic book series.
Annie is the story of a plucky red-haired girl who dreams of life outside her orphanage.
Series
Criterion collection volume 700
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray disc (87 min.) : Blu-ray, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a clever, quick, nimble, and exceptionally well-dressed wild animal. A compulsive chicken thief turned newspaper reporter, Mr. Fox settles down with his family at a new foxhole in a beautiful tree directly adjacent to three enormous poultry farms owned by three ferociously vicious farmers: Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Mr. Fox simply cannot resist. Based on the beloved, best selling book by Roald Dahl.
40) The witches
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nine-year-old Luke finds that saving the world from witches is a tall order for a boy who has been turned into a mouse.