The Gregg family loves hunting, but their eight-year-old neighbor can't stand it. After countless pleas for them to stop are ignored, she has no other choice -- she has to put her magic finger on them. Now the Greggs are a family of birds, and like it or not, they're going to find out how it feels to be on the other end of the gun.
There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by Penguin Books Ltd .
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 story:
The Magic Finger
Every Saturday morning the Greg family goes off to shoot animals and birds. But the girl who lives next door hates hunting. And that girl has a special ability. She has no idea how she does it, but sometimes, when she sees red, a flash comes out of the end of her finger. And if someone gets in the way then strange things will happen to them. And when she puts the Magic Finger on the Greggs, they find themselves swapping places with the ducks, and being hunted is not so very fun afer all..
