After reading all of Roald Dahl’s books, this one is a no-brainer, especially for the ‘cooks’. Fab recipes based on the foods mentioned in the books. Want to eat the massive chocolate cake from Matilda? Yummm… Easy to follow with the usual lovely illustrations from Blake.

Fun way to inspire kids' creativity in the kitchen! Quite gruesome,,

I don't usually buy recipe books, but when I saw this book at the flea market, I just have to have it.
The book consists of recipes from Roald Dahl's children books. And it also has pictures of the food and funny illustrations.
I read it to my girls last night, while they said, "Ewwww", I said, "oohh...I got to try to make that."
:))

brilliant book!

Amazing book!! I've wanted this for ages and not been able to find it so am very pleased to own it now. I'm a huge Roald Dahl fan and will be proud to put this with my cookbooks!!

This is a must for any kid (family) who loves Roald Dahl's books. Really, who doesn't want to whip up some Snozz-cumbers (the BFG) or Chocolate-covered-strawberry-fudge (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)? We will add this to our shelf, and as my son is old enough to read Roald Dahl with me and his dad, we will bust this book out, cook something up, and eat it (reading between bites, of course),

This is actually what it says it is...a recipe book. The fact that it includes the drawings typically found in Roald Dahl's other tales is icing on the cake (pun intended). Some of the recipe titles are gross enough that I'm not sure I'd make these dishes, but they'd be just the ticket to interest a picky child who likes the "gross" factor. Dahl's wife worked out actual recipes with titles of some of the food mentioned in his stories. Here are a couple of samples: "Mosquitoes' Toes and Wampfish Roes Most Delicately Fried" (from 'James & the Giant Peach'), or maybe "Lickable Wallpaper" (from 'Charlie & the Chocolate Factory'). Some of the dishes' actual ingredients are good enough I'd consider making the dish. One I'd make just for looks but not for eating is the "The Enormous Crocodile" (baguette with almonds for teeth, covered with frozen chopped spinach, and hard eggs for eyeballs with olives for pupils). Very fun stuff!!

I used this book in combination with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to do a unit study. The kids loved it. We made Butter Rum from the book after reading how the Oompa-Loompas became drunk then set up the video camera. I have got my children on film acting drunk just like the Oompa-Loompas. It was cute.

i have this book but i haven't tried any of the recipes

Utterly delightful (and actually tasty)

A horrible little book, I love it.

As a child this was one of my favourite recipe books--not that I was a fan of Ronald Dahl by any means--although I always enjoyed reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory--but just for the crazy and fascinating recipe ideas themselves! Also, a lot of the foods and sweets mentioned in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory were included in this book, everything from the sugar-coated pencils for licking in class to the hot ice cream for cold days, and I loved trying them out!