Der neue Pastor von Nibbleswick ist ein wenig gestresst: Er leidet an einer seltenen Form von Rückwärts-Dyslexie und spricht einige Wörter rückwärts aus. Das sorgt in seiner neuen Gemeinde für Verwirrung - und Erheiterung. Diese Kurzgeschichte schrieb Roald Dahl für eine Dyslexie-Organisation. Der deutsche Übersetzer (nicht Rowohlt) entschied sich, die Wörter nicht zu übertragen, sondern die Witze zu erklären, was den Text etwas sperrig macht. Die fröhlichen Illustrationen von Quentin Blake sind aber passend wie immer.

I love Dahls quick witted humor. This gives you a taste of that!l humor!

It’s a vey short story, too short to end. The vicar character is funny, every barmy word of him I have to re-arrange in my head and spell it out loud, except GOD to DOG. I’m a big fan of Roald Dahl, and his work has never disappointed me.

Salute to Quentin Blake, his drawing’s always brilliant!

the Vicar of Nibbleswicke by Roald Dahl. This book is about a man that has a condition that he speaks things back word and he doesn't know it. This book is really funny because some of the words he says back words mean other words and it sounds funny. This book reminded me of a friend that wrote everything back words. I would recommend this book to people that like to laugh because of something in a book.

A story that makes you chuckle all the way through :-) And those illustrations by Quentin Blake are so funny! Story is about a vicar, Reverend Lee who suffers from severe dyslexia, which causes some weird situations in his new parish! This story was written by Roald Dahl in the last months of his life. He donated the story for the benefit of the Dyslexia Institute. It's an utterly charming short story, the drawings are just too cute. Great little intermezzo in my reading challenge...Fun!

I was a big Roald Dahl fan as a child, but this story missed my purview until today, so I couldn't help but give it a read with its mere 30-something short pages.

It comes across very dated; the humour seems to be aimed at children but the archaic language and vocabulary would be difficult for any child to read.

I wondered if a plot focused on poking fun at a humorous disability would offend. However, as the rights for this book were auctioned off for charity, I can only take it in the spirit it was intended: a whimsical, tongue-in-cheek, amusing, and charming little story.

A cute little children's book, Roald Dahl is always entertaining to read more matter what audience he is aiming at.

Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake are inseparable in my mind: someone shows me a Quentin Blake picture, I wonder which Roald Dahl story it is from; I see Dahl's name on the spine, I assume it has Blake's illustrations. This piece is the shortest with both I have read but it is enjoyable. My fullest joy was found reading the introduction and preface; knowing that the two collaborated specifically for a charity and the specific charity is referenced within gave me am adult joy to match the inner child joy.

I always assumed that any story that Roald Dahl wrote about a pastor must be harsh and terrible, but this is actually really sweet. He wrote this to benefit the Dyslexia Institute, and in this fanciful short story, a town's new vicar is so overcome by nerves over his new appointment that he begins to say everything backwards without even realizing it. The story's humorous climax depends on knowing what 'sip' and 'park' sound like backwards, so some parents won't be a fan of this for their children, but it's a surprisingly gentle and reassuring story, and I enjoyed it.

Roald Dahl is a complex author. His popular children’s books -- James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr Fox, The Enormous Crocodile, The BFG, The Witches, and Matilda -- differ from most children's literature in that the adult villains are more horrible, crueler, more beastly than the monochrome typical baddies. He was much concerned with various charities, especially those which helped children. This was the motivation for "The Vicar of Nibbeswick" about an English village vicar who suffers from a rare form of dyslexia in which he inverts the internal order of certain words in his speech. For the Reverend Robert Lee, God comes out as "dog." The book is illustrated by Dahl's long-time partner in such crimes, Quentin Blake, who discloses, in an afterword, that the entire proceeds of the sale of this short book went the Dyslexia Institute (now renamed Dyslexia Action).

Another brilliant tale that address an important topic of dyslexia. The illustration is beautiful as always and clever storytelling that only Dahl can whip up. Funny and humorous! Gotta say some of the words used I needed to look up.

It was so funny!