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The Roald Dahl Audio CD Collection: Charlie, James/Peach, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Enormous Crocodile, Magic Finger

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Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: HarperCollins
Category: Book

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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

4 reviews
Sales Rank: 13719

Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Abridged
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 320
Number Of Items: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 5.2 x 0.8

ISBN: 0061214965
EAN: 9780061214967
ASIN: 0061214965

Publication Date: March 1, 2007
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description

Roald Dahl's hilarious and outrageous novels have made him one of the most popular children's authors of all time. Here, the author himself brings five of his wickedly funny stories to life:

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory:
Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last!

James and the Giant Peach:
A little magic can take you a long way.

Fantastic Mr. Fox:
Nobody outfoxes Fantastic Mr. Fox!

The Enormous Crocodile:
Watch out, kids!

The Magic Finger:
What happens when the hunter becomes the hunted?

Customer Reviews:
5 out of 5 stars

Awesome collection January 21, 2010
J. Shumaker (Pittsburgh, PA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I bought this collection for my son's fifth birthday, it is a year and a half later and this collection is still on a nightly rotation. He absolutely loves to listen to Roald Dahl read these wonderful books. I highly recommend this audio collection!

5 out of 5 stars

Mr. Dahl reads his own stories April 22, 2009
Heather Bee (Atlanta)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful

I purchased this recording on cassette at a flea market and have been absolutely delighted with it - oh, yeah, my 7-year-old likes it, too! Roald Dahl's voice fleshes out the stories and characters, as well as his typical dry observations, in a refreshing departure that satisfies kids and adults alike (we've been testing it). Remember the songs the Oompa-Loompas sang in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" or the poems in "James and the Giant Peach?" I found them to be a bit disruptive when I read those books as a child; didn't "get" them. Hearing Mr. Dahl read them really allowed me to enjoy them as well.
One word to the content: I'd forgotten that Roald Dahl does write (and read) about some tough stuff, "warts and all," as it were. Sponge and Speicker are hateful and abusive to James. The three farmers in "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" are portrayed in disgusting detail. James loses his parents scarily and suddenly when they are killed in New York (richly enough, they are eaten by a rhinocerous, which are neither native to New York nor carniverous). It's a tough world in his books. Yet it's a wondrous, fanciful one. I want my son to hang on to the perfect illusion of the latter and learn about the former aspect of the world as late as possible. He's already got hip to the tough world bit, though; so we'll aim to integrate life's knocks and laughs as best we can.
The first words I hear when I start the car engine are "Kid's tape!" sometimes alternating with, "Kid's tape, please?" or "Would you please put on a kid's tape when you get the chance?" (Guess who suggested that last version?) Suffice to say, I hear a lot of "kid's tapes," so I prefer ones I can enjoy as well. This is one of those. The recordings are long, too, like this r-

5 out of 5 stars

Wonderful set June 17, 2008
Alison R. Jefferson
9 out of 9 found this review helpful

We bought this set for our 5-year-old son after having checked it out of the library a kazillion times. The author who reads the stories has a wonderful story-telling voice. My son listens to them over and over and over again. Great stories to read, and a wonderful CD set to listen to.

5 out of 5 stars

Grandkids love these CDs! October 31, 2007
Catherine Grosse
10 out of 12 found this review helpful

I ordered this CD set for my grandkids to listen to. They have "joint custody" of the set. It rotates from house to house by the week. This is part of a circulating set that they listen to a bedtime. On busy nights, when Mom and Dad don't have time to read, this satisfies their desire for a bedtime story, plus it lasts longer than a short story or two. They sometimes drift off to sleep listening to the CDs. With 11 grandkids, this comes in handy. I'm very glad I bought this set and am so impressed that it is read by the author. This way we get the intended inflection and each nuance.

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