Penguin presents the abridged audiobook edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Four More Stories by Roald Dahl, read by Roald Dahl himself. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory(Abridged)Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last!James and the Giant Peach (Abridged) A little magic can take you a long way.Fantastic Mr. Fox (Abridged) Nobody outfoxes Fantastic Mr. Fox!The Enormous Crocodile (Abridged) This greedy crocodile loves to guzzle up little boys and girls.The Magic Finger (Abridged) Horrible neighbours learn their lesson from a little girl with powerful magic!
This book has been graded for interest at 7-9 years.
This book was published in 2016 by Penguin Random House Children's UK .
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/
This book contains the following stories:
Fantastic Mr Fox
Mr Fox lives on a hill under a huge tree with his family. Boggis is an enormously fat chicken farmer who only eats boiled chickens smothered in fat. Bunce is a duck-and-goose farmer whose dinner gives him a beastly temper. Bean is a turkey-and-apple farmer who only drinks gallons of strong cider. Every evening Mr Fox creeps down into the valley and helps himself to food from the farms. Now the farmers have hatched a plan to shoot Mr Fox dead. But Mr Fox outwits them all ...
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie Bucket lives with his mum and dad and four grandparents. They are pretty poor. What Charlie likes most is chocolate, but he only gets one bar a year - on his birthday. Just before his birthday Mr Mr Willy Wonka - the most extraordinary chocolate maker in the world - runs a competition - five golden tickets inside his chocolate bars and whoever finds them can come and look around his fantastic chocolate factory. Against the odds little Charlie Bucket gets to go. Inside the factory he sees that the other children are nasty little beasts - Augustus Gloop - a great big greedy nincompoop; Veruca Salt - a spoiled brat; Violet Beauregarde - a repulsive little gum-chewer; Mike Teavee - a boy who only watches television - and Mr Wonka sees it too. And the prize for the real winner is quite extraordinary...
This book features the following characters:
Farmer Boggis
This book features the character Farmer Boggis.
Farmer Bunce
This book features the character Farmer Bunce.
Farmer Bean
This book features the character Farmer Bean.
Mr Fox
This book features the character Mr Fox.
