I enjoyed reading this book. It is a collection of Short Stories. Some of my favorites where:

The Boy who talked with Animals. - I love the turtle!!
The Mildenhall Treasure - which is based on a true story
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar - Sugar Yes Please!! hahaha!!
and
Lucky Break

I love Roald Dahl. I love how his imagination works. I love his books and it is such a great joy to read them. This book tells us of 7 Different Stories which all of them are amazing. I love the story of Henry Sugar and the story of the Man who sees without his eyes, it is so well written and just beautiful. Lucky break also one story that I like because it is Roald Dahl's story, His first time being a writer and finding what he really wants to do. Roald Dahl's books are always such a delight to read and whenever you read his books sometimes your mind starts to wander and starts to imagine beautiful things and just feel so happy. ^^

Roald Dahl is one of my heroes. I can't imagine what my internal childscape would have been like without the company of his characters. His work walks a deliciously fine line with the frightening - funny, magical worlds filled with enough perverse imagination to bring out the darkness in wonder. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory always frightened me a little, as did James and the Giant Peach. Something about the uncontrollable and occasionally violent craziness of the former, and the horror of the starving grandparents... The latter was just mildly gross: huge insects and everything covered in sticky peach pulp. Yecch. The books that won me over were The Fantastic Mr. Fox, the story of a dashing and canny fox gentleman-thief, part Robin Hood and part animal anarchist, looting from oppressors and sharing with his community, and Danny, the Champion of the World, a beautiful story of a father and son living off the grid - in a gypsy caravan!! - and outsmarting rich bastards who hunted for fun rather than food.

This book of short stories carries on the same lively sense of imagination, albeit in very different and far more human contexts than much of his more fantastical work. My favorite essays are the last two, both non-fiction, in which he details the string of marvelous accidents that led to his becoming a writer, and his first published story, an account of his plane being shot down during WW2.

He sounds, to me, like a wonderful man - a man of humor, and great sympathy toward the dark and light of child sensibilities. And he was 6'6"!! I had always pictured him smaller, an aged Englishman with a gentle smile.

Roald Dahl's books always have wonderful effect on me.

When I read The Witches, I thanked God I didn't meet any witch as a child.
When I read Matilda, I think she's the brightest girl ever.
When I read Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, I believe that there is a very big and magical chocolate factory somewhere in this world.
When I read the Magic Finger, suddenly I have some hatred to these animal hunters.
When I read Charlie and The Great Glass Elevator, I wish that I can go to space hotel as well.
When I read the Twits, I want to thrown up.
When I read James and The Giant Peach, I want to go inside the amazing peach.

When I read this book, I can't say more than amazing. This book makes me almost believe about something, which I tell you, almost impossible.
But who's Roald Dahl? He knocks the 'im' in 'impossible' word.

Roald Dahl writes in such a simple and elegant way that it's a pleasure to read out loud. It's all very forthright and factual sounding. This book includes two non-fiction pieces, or possibly three if you include the one about how he became a writer (in which he says the other two were his only non-fiction pieces).

I read these stories aloud to Colleen.

According to the dedication page, Dahl wrote these stories for.young people who are no longer children and not yet adults. He had his own children in mind.

Most of the stories do feel like stories for his children, stories young people of England or young people who grew up reading Dahl's stories for children might be be interested in.

"The Hitchhiker"
"The Mildenhall Treasure"
"The Swan"
"Lucky Break: How I Became a Writer"
"A Piece of Cake: First Story-1942."

Here are some micro-notes about the stories I enjoyed.

fantasy: "The Boy Who Talked with Animals"
A story where fantasy, animal rights, and interspecies love meet. The love is of the committed kind.

dad story: "The Hitchhiker"
Here the hitchhiker shows the driver who he the hitchhiker is. I have a feeling scenario much like this really happened to Roald Dahl. Being the writer of stories he was, Dahl could not throw out the hitchhiker until he got the story.

dad story: "The Swan"
A warning about guns used by boy-men who have not yet developed the good sense of grown men.

dad story + fantasy: "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar"
Here a narrator tells a story about wealth and social responsibility meet fantasy. The narrator frames the story so that it is not so preachy. Reminded of Chaucer and his frames.

Some of these stories will be delightful to reread some years from now.

I've always been mesmerised by Roald Dahl - but Henry Sugar holds a special place in my heart. A story I could read again and again.

some of these stories I didn’t remember at all, and some messed me right up as a kiddo, but they’re all still engaging and bizarre. (bonus audiobook points for Andrew Scott’s narration overall, but huge negative points for an attempt at a Jamaican accent so horrible I very nearly skipped the first story entirely) (content warning for child harm & some period typical bigoted descriptions)

Riveting. So detailed and vibrant. Stories that make you feel good, I can’t describe why, but just a total joyous feeling while reading

This collection is being labeled by the publisher as teenage fiction which in my opinion it's not. Anyway, grown ups should read this collection too, especially these who only knows Dahl by his children books.

This was such a delightful set of short stories! Just as imaginative as I remembered Dahl's writing to be. This collection also includes Lucky Break, a short story about Dahl's actual life and how he became a fiction writer. As it turns out, Dahl's personal story is just as interesting as his fictional ones.

Remembering the joy of reading Road Dahl as a child, I felt very excited when I received ‘The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, And Six More’ as a birthday present. I read this book eagerly and was not disappointed. With seven short stories to capture the reader; including fiction and non-fiction, Roald Dahl once again writes with imagination, wit and intelligence. His use of description throughout these stories is spot on, enabling the reader to conjure some fantastic images. From a boy who can talk to animals to a man who sees with his eyes closed, Dahl hooked me from the beginning with originality and surprise.

Whilst mystery and humour most definitely exist, these stories do not stop here. Dahl’s clever way of writing makes the reader think beneath the surface and learn some valuable lessons throughout. ‘The Boy Who Talked with Animals’ for example, made me stop and think about kindness, greed and the importance of being true to what we believe in.

I feel that with careful choosing, this book would be most enjoyable and beneficial to children in Year 6. There is one story in particular titled ‘The Swan’ which I feel is aimed towards an older age group. Whilst it is clearly written well, it is very dark and even I, as an adult found it quite disturbing and sad.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and appreciated the mix between fiction and non-fiction. ‘Lucky Break’ and ‘A Piece of Cake’ allowed me to learn a little more about the great writer himself and once again appreciate his talent.

To be a good fiction writer (as Roald Dahl explains) “you should have imagination…make a scene come alive, and a keen sense of humour.” Throughout this book he most definitely ticks these boxes, compiling an interesting, humorous and enjoyable read. As always, a big thumbs up Roald Dahl!

"In his short story “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,” Roald Dahl develops the theme of generosity as virtuous and greed as meaningless. The protagonist, Henry Sugar, is a wealthy and lazy playboy who one day at a party reads an account written by a Dr. John Cartwright about Imhrat Khan, a man in India who could see without his eyes. Reading the account of Imhrat’s training to gain this ability, Henry Sugar decides to practice the same techniques in order to be able to see through cards at casinos. After training for three years, he wins thousands of pounds at a casino in one night, but finds that his perspective has changed. Finding meaning only in giving away his earnings, he continues to go to casinos and uses his earnings to establish twenty orphanages throughout the world."