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রোয়াল ডাল মানেই অনাবিল আনন্দ আর নিটোল গল্প। তার লেখা গল্প উপন্যাসের সাথে "শিক্ষণীয়" "উপদেশমূলক" শব্দগুলো ঠিক মানায় না।ম্যাজিক ফিঙ্গার লেখকের দলছুট ফ্যান্টাসি গল্প। এ গল্পটিতে লেখকের চিরাচরিত হাস্যরসের সাথে "শিক্ষণীয়" ব্যাপারও আছে। খুবই উপভোগ্য গল্প,সংলাপ বিশেষভাবে মনে রাখার মতো।

No hunting! It is mean! Plus, you never know when your psycho neighbor is going to flip out and and punish you with her "Magic Finger" (does that sound dirty to anyone else?). Better to stay inside where it's safe. Don't answer the door to any kids, or ducks.

This seems preachier than is the norm for Dahl. The magic isn't developed, and we don't spend enough time with the narrator to know her or care about her. The way in which the narrator characterized her magic finger as something outside herself and not under her control, while Dahl makes it clear that her feelings direct what happens, could have led to a really interesting psychological examination of anger and action and valuable points about responsibility and self-control. I would rather have had a longer book that dealt with those issues.

I got told by my little cousin to read this book who is in year 5. When I first looked at the book I wasn’t too keen to read the book but I was glad I did. I really like how Roald Dahl keeps the reader engaged into the book, because when the Girl uses her magic finger you want to what happens to them straight away. As a reader I wanted to quickly finish the page I was reading and go on to the next one so I can find out what’s next. At point I had to put the book down but I really didn’t want to. Being 22 years old, I never thought I would find this book interesting and enjoyable to read, even though its less than 60 pages.
I like the way Roald Dahl writes, the sentences are short and quick. It easy enough for children to understand the story and at the same time it’s enjoyable for adults. It’s interesting how it’s written from the Girls point of view and written the way a child would write. Roald Dahl includes what he believes would be important to a child, like her friends, what happened in schools and what important to her. As always I love the illustration in the book by Quentin Blake.
I would encourage children to read this book from year 3 onwards, but I would read this book to children as a class from year 1 onwards

Ik erken gerust dat op het moment dat de aandachtsspannes uitgedeeld werden, mijn kinderen niet op de eerste rij stonden.
Maar bij het voorlezen van dit boek, werd ik echt door wanhoop overvallen. Aan de ene kant had ik mijn dochter, die constant bezig was met een dekentje over haar te trekken, opnieuw en opnieuw. Aan de andere kant had ik mijn zoon die alle speelgoed dat hij vond over zijn werkbank aan het duwen was.
Was het omdat ze intussen al wat verwend zijn geraakt door lange fantasierijke verhalen, dat dit korte boekje met zijn vrij eenvoudig verhaal, op één avond uitgelezen, hen al niet meer kon boeien? Zelf vond ik dit nog wel vrij vermakelijk (zelfs al is de taal erg eenvoudig, voor de beginnende lezer), maar ik moet toegeven dat in het oeuvre van Roald Dahl dit wel het minst interessante boek is.

Ik vergeef het mijn kinderen dus, zeker omdat toen ik op het eind boos uitriep: "Kunnen jullie mij eigenlijk zelfs zeggen waarover het boek ging?!", mijn zoon een perfecte samenvatting gaf van het verhaal.
Typisch.

this book contains a very important lesson: even Roald Dahl can't win them all.

yes, he is the mind behind Matilda, and The BFG, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and a soldier memoir that launched me on a dad-like lifelong mild interest in World War II, and the criminally underrated Fantastic Mr. Fox, but he also wrote this, a moral/didactic misfire that is also boring.

i also think, like the protagonist, that hunting for fun is bad, but so does Fantastic Mr. Fox, and that book is whimsical enough to warrant a Wes Anderson adaptation.

this one does not even warrant mention in anyone's naming of Roald Dahl's works off the top of their head.

remember that old series where i review books i read forever ago? this is that

A classic Dahl tale that past me by as a kid, it never seems to be mentioned alongside his other best sellers.
This very short story makes for a perfect bedtime story, the same level of surrealism and a strong anti hunting message to boot.

The young eight year old narrator is so enraged with her neighbour's hunting habits, that she turns the whole of the Gregg family into birds by the use of her magic finger.
Thus the hunters become the hunted.

Like all Dahl's books its Blake's illustrations that adds an extra layer of enjoyment, seeing the Gregg's trying to build a nest was so funny.

A very quick but satisfying read.

My first 3 star Roald Dahl Book. But he never stops to amaze. Love him ❤️

Not my favourite Roald Dahl, it wasn't quite as magical or memorable as Matilda or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, nevertheless it was still a quick, fun story about talking ducks and a girl with a magic finger.

There is a specific moment from my childhood this book reminded me about.

I was playing in my room with my two little cousins, who are 5 and 6 years younger than I am - and were at the time too, obviously -, and one of them was very violent towards a plastic deer I used to love. He kept removing that poor toy's ears, and my heart sank with each tug of his annoying little hands. Noticing I was probably on the verge of tears but silent (because I was the big cousin, therefore should always be protective of the urchins and not scream and throw fits, doh), my grandmother stepped into the picture and started petting the toy, saying something like "Oh boy, poor little deer, how it must suffer without its ears... Imagine that, huh, going through that pain...". And all of the sudden, both my cousins were transfixed. They put themselves in the toy's shoes. They just stopped "hurting" it and gently started petting it, feeling sorry for it and ashamed of their previous behaviour.

I guess that was their first lesson in empathy, which this little story is also all about. Only Dahl, being Dahl, teaches kids by means of dark retaliation. Always funnier this way. :D

This short book has clear message of anti-hunting. The story mainly highlights the Cruelty of hunting for fun.

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