New Releases by Roald Dahl

Who needs a ladder when you''ve got a giraffe with an extending neck? The Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company certainly doesn''t. They don''t need a pail, either, because they have a pelican with a bucket-sized beak. With a monkey to do the washing and Billy as their manager, this business is destined for success. Now they have their big break -- a chance to clean all 677 windows of Hampshire House, owned by the richest man in all of England! That''s exciting enough, but along the way there are surprises and adventures beyond their window-washing dreams.

Twee sprookjes over een beeldschone prinses en haar vader, de oude koning.

L''oncle Oswald, personnage haut en couleur et bon vivant notoire, raconte dans ses Mémoires comment il a fait fortune. Dès l''âge de dix-sept ans, il se sert de ses connaissances en chimie et de son goût pour la bagatelle pour inventer une pilule aux propriétés stupéfiantes. Mais ce n''est qu''un début. Les aventures, tantôt scabreuses, tantôt délirantes, se succèdent à un rythme effréné. Une nouvelle fois, Roald Dahl donne libre cours à son humour dévastateur.

Presents humorous anecdotes from the author''s childhood which includes summer vacations in Norway and an English boarding school.

George decides that his grumpy, selfish old grandmother must be a witch and concocts some marvelous medicine to take care of her

With his famous wicked humor and the cunning of a big bad wolf, master storyteller and satirist Roald Dahl retells his six favorite fairy tales. Get ready for Dahl''s diabolical version of what really happened to Cinderella, Goldilocks, the Three Little Pigs, Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow White, and Little Red Riding Hood. Full color. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Humorous retellings of six well-known fairy tales featuring surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after.

Mais pourquoi la salle à manger des deux gredins est-elle sens dessus dessous ? La barbe de Compère Gredin est un véritable garde-manger, garnie des miettes de ses monstrueux festins : restes de spaghettis aux vers de terre, bribes de tartes aux oiseaux...un régal que Commère Gredin lui prépare chaque semaine. Mais voilà qu''une bande de singes acrobates va troubler les préparatifs du plat hebdomadaire... La glu éternelle y serait-elle pour quelque chose ? A partir de 8 ans.

A young English boy describes his relationship with his father and the special adventure they share together.

''The Visitor'' and ''Bitch'' are extracts from the diaries of the notorious Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, hedonist beyond compare. Uncle Oswald''s exploits are as extraordinary as they are scandalous, as these two tales of sex and intrigue confirm in vivid and hilarious detail. The delicious thrill of sexual expectation -- and its sometimes maddening effects -- are explored in ''The Great Switcheroo'' and ''The Last Act''; here the power of desire is a double-edged sword, both pleasurable and potentially catastrophic. Lust, triumph, the galling deflation of defeat: Roald Dahl captures them all in these superbly taut black comedies of human weakness and unexpected reversal. Book jacket.

SUMMARY: Three farmers, each one meaner than the other, try all-out warfare to get rid of the fox and his family.