Roald Dahl
1) The BFG
Author
Language
English
Description
Snatched 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.
Author
Publisher
Gallimard
Pub. Date
1988
Language
Français
Description
"Sophie ne rêve pas, cette nuit-là, quand elle est tirée de son lit par un géant ! Heureusement, c'est le Bon Gros Géant, le BGG, qui se nourrit de schnockombres et boit de la frambouille. Mais il existe d'autres géants au pays des géants, des brutes de quinze mètres de haut qui ne raffolent que d'une chose : les hommes de terre. Sophie et son ami le BGG pourront-ils les arrêter ? Espérons-le, sinon vous pourriez bien être le prochain à...
4) Matilda
Author
Language
English
Formats
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.
5) The witches
Author
Language
English
Formats
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.
10) The Minpins
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Little Billy enters the Forest of Sin and meets the Minpins, matchstick-sized people who live in tree cities besieged by the Smoke-Belching Gruncher whom Billy vows to destroy.
11) Esio Trot
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1990.
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.
12) The Twits
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
The misadventures of two terrible old people who enjoy playing nasty tricks and are finally outwitted by a family of monkeys.
14) The magic finger
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1998, c1968
Language
English
Description
Angered by a neighboring family's sport hunting, an eight-year-old girl turns her magic finger on them.
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A young English boy describes his relationship with his father and the special adventure they share together.
"Danny has a life any boy would love—his home is a gypsy caravan, he's the youngest master car mechanic around, and his best friend is his dad, who never runs out of wonderful stories to tell. But one night Danny discovers a shocking secret that his father has kept hidden for years. Soon Danny finds himself the mastermind behind the most...