#28

Yeah it’s still good. Have read that and The Magic Finger to my daughter (3.5 years old). The Magic Finger just passes muster on account of the illustrations on every page but it takes about 20 mins to read. I think Enormous Crocodile is more like 10-15 mins.

#29

Can’t remember when I first read the Henry Sugar collection but it definitely felt like a book for older children at the time and I really liked that.

#30

Oh yeah Matilda was the fucking bomb
The film’s great too

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#31

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, BFG, and The Witches.

The Matilda musical is fantastic too

#32

But which Roald Dahl character are you?

#33

Having googled it, I’m pretty sure we have a hardback Matilda first edition at my parents’ house.

#35

Properly batshit point of view. DCotW is proper literature. Incredible pastoral writing and the realest, most tender relationship Dahl ever described.

#36

another vote for fantastic mr fox

#37

Always thought the Oompa Loompas were #problematic

#38

I am Willy Wonka
Of course I am

#39

I got George Lansbury again.

#40

Never liked him
David Walliams is good though

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#41

Adored Fantastic Mr Fox, Matilda and the Twits. I remember when Wes Anderson was filming Mr Fox and him, Bill Murray and Clooney hung out in this local pub not far from me. Made our local paper (I live in a dull area).

#42

Fantastic Mr Fox. Think that’s what made me want to take up drinking cider.

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#43

really? I’ve got loads of shit like this kicking about

#45

aye, it was more of a curiosity thing for me, anyway.

got loads of real old books - like way over a hundred years*, but ain’t ever going to sell them.

*I appreciate this could mean nothing

#46

The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down

#47

Did anyone make their own marvellous medicine from toothpasre and bits of old sock and the like?

Also forgot about the opening of the BFG which is genuinely creepy.

#48

Boy is really good
The Witches gave me nightmares (film)
James and the giant peach is cool so are all of them tbh

Matilda is the absolute best though

#49

As a teacher I’m wary of making kids read books we read as kids as there are so many good contemporary authors and a lot of our old favourites won’t necessarily appeal to kids today. Ronald Dahl is absolutely timeless though #absoluteledge