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Dirty Beasts - Roald Dahl

 

Description: ISBN 0140568239 / Author: Roald Dahl / Genre: Junior Books / This collection of poems introduces a menagerie of comic animals. Meet the poor toad that jumps to France - at his own peril; the pig who ponders on the meaning of life; the anteater who gets the wrong end of the ... more
Dirty Beasts - Roald Dahl ... stick; and the porcupine with its painful prickles.

Newest Review: ... it comes to telling us his favourite food. We are then introduced to 'The Scorpion' and told to be thankful that we in ... more

 ... England will never find one in our bed - or will we? 'There's something moving on my feet'... 'The Ant-Eater' looks quite cuddly in comparison but beware, looks are deceiving. 'The Porcupine' teaches us the all-important lesson of having a good look before we sit down anywhere. A poor little girl fails to do this before settling on a 'comfy-looking little mound' to eat her favourite raspberry-cream chocolates that she has just bought with her pocket-money: 'My backside seemed to catch on fire! A hundred bits of red-hot ...more

frangliz
Crowned Review Dirty Beasts - Roald Dahl: More gruesome than dirty (942 words)
by frangliz - written on 17/08/08 (Very useful, 252 readings)
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Some children may grow up thinking that poetry is an art form that is stodgy and boring, or has to revolve around lofty ideas. If that is the case, they cannot have been introduced to Roald Dahl's 'Dirty Beasts', a collection of nine verses each featuring a creature that is either particularly frightening, very clever or quite extraordinary in some way. The book is likely to delight anyone who has enjoyed Dahl's 'The BFG', 'George's Marvellous Medicine' or 'The Twits', amongst others. 'The Pig' opens this anthology: a pig with a massive brain, who wonders what the purpose of his life is. He is clever enough to work it out: '"They want my bacon ...

Trayo
Crowned Review And the moral of the story is... (2787 words)
by Trayo - written on 12/08/01 (Very useful, 3718 readings)
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We love books in our family. We particularly love Roald Dahl books in our family. More importantly, we love to share our thoughts on such books, discussing the morals and meanings within. Some of our ideas are, quite clearly, preposterous. Mine, mostly, according to Asley. My problem is that I have been tainted by the cinicism of adulthood. So Aslet tells me, anyway. If you ask me, he listens to his grandmother too much. When I say “we”, I mean, more precisely, my nine year old son, Asley, and I. Sure, my daughter loves books, but at 10 months old, she takes the phrase “get your teeth into a good book” a little too far. ...

lgriffin
Premium Review Dirty Beasts - Roald Dahl: Brilliant dirty beasts!! (98 words)
by lgriffin - written on 21/07/00 (Very useful, 108 readings)
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Dirty Beasts is an excellent anthology of poems written by Roald Dahl. His wicked sense of humour is apparent throughout and accessed by both adults and children at different levels. roald Dahls tongue in cheek attitude to writing comes across well in this anthology and one gets the impression he is 'sailing close to the wind' at times. a lavatorial humour comes across and this appeals to children of all ages. Some parents may find the subject matter a little 'risky' at time, but probably no worse than what they are exposed to on the television. ...

 

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