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Roald dahl books for young readers

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lexcat · 11/10/2007 10:12

DD 6 loves The Twits and I have read it to abou three times, her teacher has read it and now she is reading it. She tried Matilda but got lost very quickly.
Out of all the Roald Dahl books which are best for younger children and which are best to leave till she's a little older.
We've read Fantastic Mr fox and The Mimpins both of which she loved.

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mustsleep · 11/10/2007 10:17

yes def the twits and geroges marvelous medicine went down well with ds (he's five) also james giant peach wne t down well

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MerlinsBeard · 11/10/2007 10:18

the enormpous crcodile is great. ds1 (4) loves it!

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bobsmum · 11/10/2007 10:19

Ds is 5 and loved the Magic Finger. I didn't expect him to, but he really like Esio TRot too.

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MerlinsBeard · 11/10/2007 10:22

is the giraffe and the pelly and me the one with the poems in?

what about the obvious....charlie and the chocoate factory?

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mrsflowerpot · 11/10/2007 10:24

George's Marvellous Medicine or James and the Giant Peach I would say. Try the Witches too - DS has struggled getting into Matilda, I think it takes a long time to get to the action iyswim, but The Witches is straight in there.

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bobsmum · 11/10/2007 10:24

Oh yes - giraffe, the pelly and me - ds loved that too! It has songs in it which ds insisted I made up tunes too

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pyjamagirlgotbitbyvampires · 11/10/2007 10:29

The enormous crocodile or the twits

can't help laughing all the way through them though

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lexcat · 11/10/2007 10:31

Thanks your reminding me of all the books she has in fact read, Esio Trot and The giraffe pelly and me.
Loved Roald Dahl as a child and never read the Enomous Crodile so we might try that then George's Marvelous Medicine can't believe I forgot about hat one it was one of my top Dahl books as a child.

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