Revolting Rhymes - Hardcover

Dahl, Roald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375815562 ISBN 13: 9780375815560

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2002

Synopsis

I guess you think you know this story.
You don't. The real one's much more gory.
The phoney one, the one you know,
Was cooked up years and years ago. . . .

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.

This book has been selected as a Common Core State Standards Text Exemplar (Grades 4-5, Poetry) in Appendix B.

About this title

Review:

Verses featuring mayhem, greed, betrayals and murder, from two gifted collaborators. ("Publishers Weekly") A sophisticated spoof. ("The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books")

Book Description:

From master storyteller Roald Dahl come these side-splitting rhymes, in a beautiful black-and-white hardback edition illustrated by Quentin Blake.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375815562
• ISBN 13: 9780375815560
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 11
• Illustrator: Blake Quentin