Roald Dahl
1) The BFG
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1982
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater, the Bonecruncher, or any of the other giants -- rather than the BFG -- she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that they are flush-bunking off in England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she...
2) The Witches
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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 herself, they may...
Author
Language
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Description
A lo largo de cuatro décadas, la madre de Roald Dahl guardó todas las cartas que le enviaba su hijo. Ella fue la primera lectora del autor de Matilda, la persona que estimuló su deseo de narrar, fabular y entretener mediante la palabra escrita.
En esta correspondencia que ve la luz por primera vez en español, Dahl perfeccionó las dotes narrativas y el humor macabro que harían de él uno de los escritores más populares del siglo xx. También...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little boy becomes friends with a giraffe, a pelican, and a monkey who wash windows for a living. While working for the Duke of Hampshire, they catch a famous jewel thief and are each granted a wish.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Roald Dahl (September 13, 1916 - November 23, 1990), born in Cardiff, Wales, was a novelist, poet, screenwriter, and short story author, as well as a fighter pilot and intelligent officer in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II. Considered one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century, Dahl's classic works include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, The Witches, The Twits and Matilda. His books...
9) Matilda
Author
Publisher
Viking Kestrel
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
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.
13) The magic finger
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Angered by a neighboring family's sport hunting, an eight-year-old girl turns her magic finger on them.
14) Esio trot
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Join the expedition visiting legendary Candy Man Willy Wonka in a splendiferous movie that wondrously brings to the screen the endlessly appetizing delights of Roald Dahl's classic book. On a whirlwind tour of Willy's incredible, edible realm of chocolate waterfalls, elfish Oompa-Loompas, and industrial-sized confections, a boy named Charlie will discover the sweetest secret of all: a generous, loving heart.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Charlie and five others draw golden tickets from Wonka chocolate bars and win a guided tour of the legendary candy factory that no outsider has seen in 15 years. Dazzled by one amazing sight after another, Charlie is drawn into Wonka's fantastic world.
18) The BFG
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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.