Can someone please get me this one day? I remember reading it during some breaks back in middle school. It was one of the only books I could go through over and over and not need to talk to anyone about to make reading it feel as great as the first time. He really was something else.

This is on my shelf in addition to the individual full-length works. The book includes "moments" of his writing--the shorter stories, and extracts from the longer books. A nice volume, but not a complete collection. In fact, I would say it's not a good place to start with Roald Dahl as I believe the longer books are really his best work (thus the 3 stars here and not more).

If I'm ever sick, or really feeling blue, this is the perfect book to curl up with. It's impossible not to feel chirpy after reading Dahl's downright hilarious poems (which are a quirky take on age-old fairytales!)
Sometimes, I still like it read to me by my mum.

? Wij hebben deze mooie uitgave al een tijd bij ons in de boekenkast staan. Tijd voor mij om nog eens te lezen welke verhalen er precies allemaal instaan..

Some really good and interesting stuff in here. Would have preferred a complete works but I will be buying Revolting Ryhmes at some point, they were all ace!

Full Disclosure: I didn't realize how much of the book would be excerpts from other books. In the cases where I had not read the original books, I skimmed the excerpts in the Treasury (I didn't want to spoil the other stories).

Of the Dahl books I read and thus reread the excerpts - I noticed that in particular the My Year and  Boy: tales of childhood sections were well chosen and I thoroughly enjoyed re-reading them. The other poems and short stories, some from  Dirty Beasts and  Revolting Rhymes, had just as much charm as they did the first time around. The full colored illustrations just brought the story to life.

In addition, the Treasury also included handwritten notes from Dahl to readers or from readers or letters to his mother - something that I appreciated seeing in the book.

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The letters were cute, the illustrations lovely, but I think I prefer the individual books.

some great stuff here - but all it does is make you want to go back to read the full books.

This is an amazing book which made it to my 4th favourite book rank!

I wonder how he even came up with these concepts

Amazing collective of Roald Dahl’s most iconic works. Although I read most of his stories growing up, rereading them as an adult makes me realize how much I’ve learned from his characters and stories. This treasury is so precious, with little excerpts from so many of his works!

As a kid, I was absolutely obsessed with everything Roald Dahl, and so this was the perfect book for me.