Roald Dahl
1) The Twits
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English
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Twit are the smelliest, nastiest, ugliest people in the world. They hate everything -- except playing mean jokes on each other, catching unsuspecting birds to put in their bird pies, and making their caged monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, stand on their heads all day. But the Muggle-Wumps have had enough. With the help of Roly-Poly Bird, they set out to get some well-deserved revenge.
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GENERAL FICTION (CHILDREN'S / TEENAGE). Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World's number one Storyteller! Billy's biggest wish is to turn a weird old wooden house into a wonderful sweet-shop. But then he finds a giraffe, a pelly and a monkey living inside - they're the Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company! Who needs ladders when you've got a giraffe? They become best friends and when they meet the richest man in all of England, there's...
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The enormous crocodile devises secret plans and a few clever tricks to secure his lunch only to have them foiled by his neighbors. The other jungle animals thwart the ferocious crocodile's plans to eat some "nice juicy children" for lunch. The Enormous Crocodile decides that he wants a nice juicy child for lunch, horrifying the other animals in the jungle--his friend, the Notsobig One; Humpy-Rumpy, the hippopotamus; Trunky, the elephant; Muggle-Wump,...
5) The Minpins
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English
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Little Billy enters the Forest of Sin and meets the Minpins, matchstick-sized people who live in tree cities besieged by the Smoke-Belching Gruncher whom Billy vows to destroy.
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Puffin Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Billy's mum says he must never go out through the garden gate and explore the dark forest beyond. So, one day, he does exactly that! There Billy meets the amazing Minpins, tiny people who live inside the hollow trees. But the Minpins are in danger. The terrible, galloping Gruncher stalks the forest, and the Minpins are disappearing in their thousands. Can Billy find a way to destroy the hungry beast, once and for all--or will it gobble him up too?...
8) Los Mimpins
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Altea
Pub. Date
©1992
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Español
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Billy has quite an adventure in the Bosque del Pecado. Some might even think his imagination runs away with him.
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Juvenil Alfaguara volume 294
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Ed. Alfaguara
Pub. Date
1987
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Español
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A small boy with a desire to own a candy shop meets a window-washing team of a giraffe, a pelican, and a monkey and together they go to work for the wealthy Duke of Hampshire, who makes all their dreams come true.
