I recently read somewhere, an author saying the best advise he ever got was to always read Roald Dahl. I think that's pretty good advise. I didn't read a lot of him when I was a kid (I didn't like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or Fantastic Mr. Fox), and I honestly think I enjoy him more as an adult.

This book did get a little tedious after a while (I don't think you're supposed to read it straight through), and I'm not a fan of extracts from full-lenght books, but all-in-all, this was a very enjoyable read.

I read this with my 8 year old and every story or extract captivated us both. Such amazing stories, true accounts of his time flying with the RAF in the war.
Roald Dahl's way with words and his amazing imagination transports you into the story. A super book. I would recommend everyone, young and old to read and enjoy this. Go on, you won't regret it

Warning, it will make you want to read all of his other works!

I only read two Roald Dahl books as a child and they were Danny Champion of the World and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Although this book doesn't contain many complete books in it, alot of the extracts are complete chapters, rhymes or stories. Great introduction into the world of Roald Dahl !

Having had this on my shelf for probably over 10 years, and feeling as child that it was too daunting a read, being 444 pages, I really wish i had dipped in and out of it because it is truly magical! Of course, a lot of the stories and extracts in the treasury, I had already read, and they were nice to revisit. The book is also jam-packed with poems and previously unpublished material, which was really fun to read. Stories that I somehow missed during my childhood including The Enormous Crocodile, The Minpins and extracts from My Year were especially nice to come across. All of this is complemented not just by the quintessential Quentin Blake but by other amazing artists. And every drawing is presented in full colour.

The reason for the start of the Dahl era. Now I know his wit and observations are sharp and for school age kids, and he wrote such great stuff, but even my 4 year old's in love with his stories and especially his poems. Which made me realize, I should never undermine a 4 year old's choice in stories. He's awesome, and he must have been the oldest kid alive.

My husband got this book for me as a Christmas present. I love anything Roald Dahl (as you can probably gather from my books), so I was excited that he bought this for me. The graphics in this book are wonderful, and the collection of books is nice because it enables the reader to see the wide variation in Dahl's writing topics. My only criticism is that I was disappointed that the Treasury uses only snippets of the different books (a chapter of each, really) rather than the entire book. I would really like to have a large volume of Dahl's collected works, and while this is a step in that direction, I was surprised to find that it was only selections.

Full of classics (and the occasional racist poem *tugs at shirt collar*). I especially enjoyed the spins on classic fairy tales and the nonfiction about Dahl's life and interests. I learned a lot about moles. I wasn't a huge fan of the book excerpts because I would rather have all or nothing of them. Overall a great compendium of nostalgia.

I found this gem on my childhood bookcase, hidden in my parent's basement, shoved behind cardboard boxes containing broken appliances and whatever else elderly immigrant parents like to hoard.

Or, I suppose, as Mr. Dahl would put it, I looked with glittering eyes because the greatest secrets are hidden in the most unlikely places. I believed in magic and so I found it. Of course, this isn't entirely ingenuous; I deliberately went hunting for a book from my childhood, I knew where the dusty, cobwebbed bookcase was, and I had a vague sense of what I wanted to read--a book that would conjure up the feelings of childlike wonder and magic, or at least bring me comfort these days, transporting me back to when I admittedly had a bad experience--I would never want to be a child again--but at least I had no responsibilities.

The robin's blue cover caught my eye and without hesitancy, I snatched it, at once cleaning my parent's house and combating their hoarding. I am a filial son in more than one way.

The book is great and reminds me of how much range Mr. Dahl had, how versatile he was as a writer. On the docket to read is his non-fiction, perhaps followed by his horror stories. Side note: did we as a society collectively get more squeamish and prude? As with helicopter parenting, in which we can't let kids walk down the block with supervision, have our stories been neutered too? Because I remember the vague sense of fucked-up-ness as a kid reading Mr. Dahl's stories--c'mon, bruh, the Witches?? Like, how fucked up of a story is that for a kid to read (am I becoming a helicopter parent without even realizing it?). Even if the ending is 'happy' because the mouse-kid exterminates his witch and gets to explore the world exterminating all witches with his obese, ancient, emphysemaic grandmother--which is also really fucked up in a whole slew of ways--it's still morbid given the kid remains a mouse, doomed to die after a couple of years, spending the rest of his short life with aforementioned on-death's-door grandmother, constantly risking his little mouse-neck in some sort of dopamine, thrill-seeking agenda (not really for the greater good)--and upon re-reading it I am struck by how this macabre undercoat has remained. No surprise given Dahl's other interests--horror, morbid short stories--and the time he grew in--the man was a RAF pilot who killed people--all stiff upper lip and gallantry but repressed emotion.

This book is one I'll treasure for my life and will hopefully pass down to my kid's and my kid's kids. Thank you, Mr. Dahl for imbuing parts of my childhood with magic and for the reminder to always keep looking and believing in it.

I'd not read a whole lot of Roald Dahl, but I knew the stories and had watched several of the films and loved them. So this became a book on the list for santa.

I really like reading about his memoirs and his thoughts and feelings when we wrote the various books, but I had never really appreciated them as much until I read this.

The only down-side to this book was reading extracts and reviews of the books I hadn't read, because I wouldn't know the story or in some cases, I wanted to carry on reading but it was only a chapter long, and couldn't get hold of a copy to read the full book!

I love Roald Dahl & can't wait till my daughter is old enough for me to share his books with her...this book is like a bit of nostalgia, you get that good feeling from each snippet & there's bits I'd never read so they were a real treasure...it's like eating a delicious box of assorted chocolates (not to sound too forest gump!)

I love this book. It is amazing. It has been a favorite of mine since I was little.