Dirty Beasts - Roald Dahl Reviews

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

Roald Dahl's dirty beasts is the follow up to his book "Revolting Rhymes". Dirty Beasts takes a number of animals (crocs, hedgehogs etc) and puts into rhyme the real truth about these animals. Graphic details are not spared. Dahl tells the truth and the humour is cutting and superb, whatever age you are. ...

Dirty Beasts by Roald Dahl is an excellent anthology designed to appeal to children whether they be small or somewhat bigger! Roald Dahl captures his audience by appealing to their 'baser' instincts. Designed to entertain, scare and shock this anthology manages to do all of this. Some of us 'more ...