Six beloved children's fairy tales, including Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Little Pigs, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, told from the perspective of the master storyteller Roald Dahl - from the villain's point of view!
Did you think that Cinderella married the prince and they lived happily ever after? Well, read it again. Sometimes it's useful to look at a famous story through the eyes of the Gray Wolf, for example.
The book of poems (yes, yes!) by Roald Dahl was first published in English in 1982, and only in 2019 was it published for the first time in Russian, translated by the writer, poet, and famous translator of English nonsense poetry Evgeny Klyuev.
Roald Dahl's witty, provocative " Gangster Rhymes " have become a classic children's book in the UK (as have the rest of Dahl's books), and in 2016 an animated adaptation was released on the BBC, and in 2017 this cartoon was even nominated for an Oscar.
Recommended reader age: 6+
Author: Roald Dahl
Translation: Evgeny Vasilyevich Klyuev
Artist: Quentin Blake
Year of release: 2019
Publisher: Samokat
Pages: 56
Cover type: Hardcover
Dimensions: 247x178x11 mm
ISBN: 978-5-91759-766-9