How can you not love Roald Dahl's poems. The subjects are hilarious, the cadence is perfect, and they're just so much fun!
I think these would have been my first (or at least one of my first) introductiona to poetry as a young boy. I definitely remember reading them, but only in a very hazy manner, which is odd when you're reading - you almost know what's coming next, but not quite.
As a child, I remember being shocked by some of them - the narrator and his son do get eaten in one of them, after all - but in a wonderfully ghoulish manner, I loved it. They strike just the right tone for a small child to love them for their grisly-ness while still being good enough, and with enough technique, for the adults reading along to be entertained again.
I'm looking forward to reading these with my niece when I can see her again after lockdown, as long as my sister gives them the okay. Actually, maybe even if she doesn't.

Sweet, charming and extremely entertaining.

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Miriam Margolyes, Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Greig read this one - and they made it a super fun listen.

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Though I was pretty much disturbed by the darkness of the allegory it contains, still very rich symbolic language which is easy to interpret in many different ways. But of course I am not going to read it to my child, at least not before 15 ))))

Irreverant poetry aimed at children but fun for adults alike! My favourites being 'The Pig' and 'the Tummy Beast'. Wonderfully illustrated by the fabulous Quentin Blake.

You know, I said yesterday that Revolting Rhymes must have had an impact on my own fairy tale writing, but rereading this volume today - another of my childhood staples - I'm forced to wonder about all the work I do on food and horror. Because most of the stories here are about food! About being food, I should say. They're snarky and darkly hilarious and I can't believe how long it's been since I've read them. And Quentin Blake's illustrations are as always fabulous, I've been laughing for the past five minutes at the picture of the pig who is realising he's about to be lunch.

I remembered these poems once I started reading, all silly poems about animals. Quite fun but a bit young for me now, whereas the other works have been enjoyable regardless of them being aimed at a young audience

I love Roald Dahl and his spellbinding ability to tell a story in any and all forms. No matter what your age I highly recommend this book to everyone (because age does not limit one’s ability to dream or imagine the impossible). In this small collection of comic verse we meet a wonderful, scary array of animals (my favorite one was The Porcupine) that will definitely make you laugh out loud with their beastly antics.

This was a hilarious short poetry collection about animals and other unusual creatures. 10/10

“..To everybody it was plain
That Piggy had a massive brain.
He worked out sums inside his head, There was no book he hadn't read.
He knew what made an airplane fly, He knew how engines worked and why.
He knew all this, but in the end
One question drove him round the bend:
He simply couldn't puzzle out
What LIFE was really all about.
What was the reason for his birth?
Why was he placed upon this earth?
His giant brain went round and round.
Alas, no answer could be found..”

Well now I regret that I don't have children so I can scare the shit out of them with this book

Never have I read something like this book , I say this because I didn't read a small book talking about many thing. I choose to read this book because I think the tittle and the picture was very funny and Very imaginative，After reading it , I feel that very Magic because this is a small book but it talking about many funny thing , like the feeling/thinking for animal , the pig and the lion. The best part of the story is when the boy found a big frog , love this part because I think it have some same thing for the story called"Frog prince”， because although the frog was didn't very beautiful , but the two character all can get some fun from the frog , like the boy Lying on the frog to fly on the sky and the girl help the frog to change back to the prince , so she get a great emotion. If you are someone who like to read some interesting book you can read this book because this is a short book , so it can read very quick and it will give you happy . -September review

This started out all sorts of wrong, with a pig realizing what his "life was really all about" -- and turning the tables on the farmer. More mayhem ensued with various animals apparently having nothing better to do than trying to harm people (ideally children). Having thus established the murderousness of pigs, crocodiles, lions, and scorpions... Dahl wrote a truly ugly poem about a spoiled young boy starving his pet ant-eater near to death. Except by now we all know how this tale ends!

Next we are treated to three silly rhyming stories involving a porcupine (or rather, the porcupine's quills and a young girl's back end); a flying cow; and a toad/snail. The latter two poems come with a side of casual mocking xenophobia, which may or may not have appeared funny and innocent in 1983? But no, this is not something I'm going to hand to a kid.

I don't know why I kept reading past the first poem or two. But I did. I finished the whole darn thing. The last poem, The Tummy Beast, is sort of amusing if you don't mind a bit of fat shaming... oh who am I kidding. Don't bother with this book, there are so many better ones waiting to be discovered.

This was almost a one-star review, but I'm adding half a star because Dahl did make me laugh a few times.

Read 2023: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

-The Pig: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
-The Crocodile: ⭐️⭐️
-The Lion: ⭐️⭐️
-The Scorpion: ⭐️⭐️
-The Ant-Eater: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
-The Porcupine: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
-The Cow: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
-The Toad and the Snail: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
-The Tummy Beast: ⭐️⭐️⭐️