from the back cover: Deception is usually frowned on as morally unacceptable, but is it always wrong? Can hiding or distorting the truth sometimes have good effects, adding to the sum of human happiness? These ten stories are full of secrets and lies, from a light-hearted bit of fun to dark and desperate deceit; but whether harmless or evil, deception can sometimes lead to quite unexpected com…
Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five-and-a-half she's knocking off double-digit multiplication problems and blitz-reading Dickens. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even though she's a super-nerd and the teacher's pet. But everything is not perfect in Matilda's world. For starters she has two of the most idiotic, self-centered parents who ever lived. …
Throughout his young days at school and just afterwards a number of things happened to Roald Dahl that made such a tremendous impression he never forgot them.,
This fun and colorful read-aloud book will help huide a child's first steps in learning and growing
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Everytime Mr. Fox steals a chicken from the farm, Farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean grow wild with rage. They're the nastiest crooks in the valley and they've planned to dig him out of his hole once and for all. But it never occurs to them that Mr. Fox has a fantastic plan of his own.