"Fantastic Mr. Fox and Other Animal Stories" features delightful tales by Roald Dahl, narrated by Stephen Fry. In "Fantastic Mr. Fox," clever farmer Fox outsmarts his greedy neighbors, the farmers Boggis, Bunce, and Bean, to provide for his family. "Esio Trot" tells the sweet story of Mr. Hoppy, who devises a clever plan to win the heart of his neighbor, Mrs. Silver. "The Enormous Crocodile" is about a hungry crocodile determined to eat children, while "The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me" follows a boy who teams up with a giraffe, a pelican, and a monkey to run a window-cleaning business. Each story is filled with humor, adventure, and Dahl's signature whimsy. [Generated by language model - please report any problems].

This book is aimed at children at US 3rd grade-7th grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 8-11 years.

This book was published in 2013 by Random House USA Inc .

Roald Dahl was born in Wales of Norwegian parents the child of a second marriage. His father and elder sister died when Roald was just three. His mother was left to raise two stepchildren and her own four children. Roald was her only son. He had an unhappy time at school and this influenced his writing greatly. He once said that what distinguished him from most other childrens writers was this business of remembering what it was like to be young. Many of his books have been turned into films - Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG, The Witches, James and The Giant Peach, Esia Trot, Fantastic Mr Fox. Roalds childhood and schooldays are the subject of his autobiography Boy. https://www. roalddahl. com/ Chris O'Dowd is an award-winning actor, writer and director. He has appeared in many films, including Bridesmaids , The Sapphires and This Is 40 . He also starred in cult TV series The IT Crowd , Family Tree and Girls , and on Broadway in Of Mice and Men with James Franco. He writes, directs and stars in Moone Boy , the Sky TV series, on which he collaborates with his friend Nick Vincent Murphy. Chris is from Roscommon, Ireland, but is currently based in LA. He studied politics at Dublin University before training at LAMDA. Comedian, actor and writer Stephen Fry was born in 1957 in London and brought up in Norfolk. He attended Queen's College Cambridge from 1979, joining the Cambridge Footlights Dramatic Club where he met Hugh Laurie, with whom he forged a highly successful creative partnership. He also trod the boards with the likes of Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery in the Footlights. Critical acclaim was followed by popular appeal with the move to television. Memorable outings included Blackadder, A Bit of Fry & Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster . Big screen outings included Wilde , Gosford Park and Peter's Friends. He also read all of the Harry Potter books for the highly successful unabridged audiobook edtions. He has written for television and screen, and as a newspaper columnist - for the Literary Review, Daily Telegraph and The Guardian . Stephen Fry's four novels are The Liar, The Hippopotamus, Making History and The Stars' Tennis Balls . He has also published Moab is My Washpot - an autobiography; and Rescuing the Spectacled Bear - his diary of the making of a documentary on the plight of the spectacled bears of Peru. His latest book is Stephen Fry in America . His websites is www. stephenfry. com.