The Roald Dahl Treasury

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I recently read somewhere, an author saying the best advise he ever got was to always read Roald Dahl. Many were originally written for American magazines such as Ladies Home Journal, Harper's, Playboy and The New Yorker, then subsequently collected by Dahl into anthologies, gaining world-wide acclaim. I only wish there had been a little more editorial narration/inserts, like the first couple of pieces by his editor and daughter, to better frame the sections of the book – like mini-introductions to each section. I didn't read a lot of him when I was a kid (I didn't like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or Fantastic Mr.

I'd not read a whole lot of Roald Dahl, but I knew the stories and had watched several of the films and loved them. The other poems and short stories, some from Dirty Beasts and Revolting Rhymes, had just as much charm as they did the first time around.

We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user information, or run ads.Having had this on my shelf for probably over 10 years, and feeling as child that it was too daunting a read, being 444 pages, I really wish i had dipped in and out of it because it is truly magical! The graphics in this book are wonderful, and the collection of books is nice because it enables the reader to see the wide variation in Dahl's writing topics. Robert McCrum of The Observer deemed it "a sumptuously illustrated anthology" and "a wonderful introduction" to Dahl's work for children.

A selection of guest illustrators including Raymond Briggs and Ralph Steadman add visual variety to the extracts.Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. Tony Bradman of The Daily Telegraph critiqued some of the passages included as not well-representing their books, but overall labelled Treasury as "a fascinating overview of Dahl's ouevre for children. He taught illustration for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art, of which he is an honorary professor. A host of Roald Dahl’s best-loved characters are here, from the Enormous Crocodile to Willy Wonka, from the Minpins to the Twits, from James to Matilda.

In Africa he learnt to speak Swahili, drove from diamond mines to gold mines, and survived a bout of malaria where his temperature reached 105. His life seems absolutely fascinating, and the excerpts we have in this Treasury are just teasers of the breadth of his skill at his craft.

A compendium of Dahl's work for children in four themed sections: Animals; Magic; Family, Friends and Foes; and Matters of Importance. This review seems completely pointless because even if I did have anything bad to say about anything that Dahl has ever written (which I certainly do not), his legions of fans from young to old will simply ignore. Roald Dahl novels, short stories, poems, rhymes and songs can be enjoyed as a class reading, individual reading, guided reading and will certainly help to inspire young peoples creative writing skills.