The BFG is a big friendly giant who spirits a child out of bed one dark night. Fortunately, he really is friendly, but his countrymen in the Land of Giants are inveterate child-eaters.

The giraffe, the pelican and the agile monkey set out to prove that they are the best window-cleaning company around.

Billy's biggest wish is to turn a weird old wooden house into a wonderful sweet shop. But then he finds a giraffe, a pelly and a monkey living inside - they're the Ladderless Window Cleaners! Who need ladders when you've got a giraffe? They become best friends.

Presents the second part of Roald Dahl's remarkable life story, following on from Boy , that tells of his time working in Africa and his wartime exploits.

Is it really possible to invent a machine that does the job of a writer? What is it about a landlady's house that makes it so hard for her guests to leave? This book features thirteen of the author's most unexpected tales, offering young readers a suitable introduction to the adult writing of a storytelling genius.

Tells the story of James and his journey to New York with the strangest group of insect friends.

Contains stories including The Landlady , William and Mary , The Way up to Heaven , Parson's Pleasures , Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat , Royal Jelly , Gregory Progy , Genesis and Catastrophe , Edwards the Conqueror , Pig and The Champion of the World .

A story of a little girl with magical powers. When someone makes her angry she zaps a punishment on them with her magic flashing finger.

Matilda invents a game of punishing her parents when they treat her badly. She soon discovers that she has supernatural powers.

Little Billy doesn't really believe there are monsters in the wood, but the red-hot smoke-belching gruncher is real enough, and so are the tiny minpins, whose minature world is in danger.

Contains six nursery tales that feature wicked beasts, brazen crooks and a ghastly giant star.

A collection of ribald rhymes featuring characters from fairy tales, fables and nursery rhymes. It covers stories ranging from The Tortoise and the Hare and Hansel and Gretel to Ali Baba and Aladdin .

At school, Roald Dahl looked forward most to those special days when the local chocolate company sent every pupil a large box of chocolate bars for testing. Years later he wrote a children's book inspired by the chocolate testing. It was one of the first of a string of incredibly funny, rude and amazing stories, which millions of children have read and enjoyed. Other titles in the series: Amelia .

Everybody knows that Roald Dahl wrote brilliant books for children and created a fantastic chocolate factory. But did you know that Roald was a fighter pilot, and a spy in the Second World War? This book contains things you wanted to know about the man with the chocolate factory.

Divided into four themed sections - Animals; Magic; Family, Friends and Foes; and, Matters of Importance, this collection of extracts, poems, letters and memoirs introduces some of the author's characters from Willy Wonka to the BFG, from the Witches to the Twits. It contains a touch of magic and is suitable for the author's fans.

A box set containing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator , Danny the Champion of the World , George's Marvellous Medicine , The BFG and The Twits .

George creates a very special medicine to cure his grandma of her nasty habits.

Young George mixes a medicine to make his nasty grandmother more likable, and once she drinks it she grows to immense proportions. George's father wants the formula to breed a race of super-size livestock, but George can't duplicate the recipe. His fourth try is a potion that shrinks the drinker to nothing - and greedy Grandma drinks it.

Boggis, Bunce and Bean are the meanest three farmers you could meet. They are determined to get Mr Fox - but he has other plans.

Tells the story of a big friendly giant who spirits a child out of bed to the land of the child-eating giants.