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www.roalddahl.com/Publisher
Puffin Books an imprint of Penguin Books LtdPublication date
3rd September 2009ISBN
9780141327761Children's Author 'Like-for-Like' recommendations
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Fantastic Mr Fox (Picture Storybook)
Roald Dahl
Part of the 'Fantastic Mr Fox' Series
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Julia Eccleshare's comment:
To coincide with the film release in the third week of October 2009, this delightful picture storybook complete with animated imagery from the film is published complete with an audio CD. Roald Dahl’s wonderful story of three horrible farmers getting their comeuppance from wily Mr. Fox is so memorable. There are two readings on the CD, one is a straight reading with music, and the second has a special sound to indicate where to turn the page as you read along. There is also a special film tie-in edition of the full-length novel for slightly older readers than this picture book.
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The film of Fantastic Mr. Fox is a British film, set in the UK and produced in the UK. The animated comedy is voiced by, among others, George Clooney and Meryl Streep.
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Synopsis
Fantastic Mr Fox (Picture Storybook) by Roald DahlReleasing October 2009, Wes Anderson and Twentieth Century Fox bring to life Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox in breathtaking stop-motion animation. With a cast that includes George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Bill Murray, this film is guaranteed to delight Dahl fans of every age. Every time Mr Fox steals a chicken from the farm, Farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean grow wild with rage! They're the nastiest crooks in the valley, and they've concocted a cunning plan to dig him out of his hole once and for all. But it never occurs to them that Mr Fox has a fantastic plan of his own ...Based on text adapted from Roald Dahl's original story, blended with a mix of film stills and concept artwork, this is a gorgeous picture book that readers will love.
About The Author
Roald Dahl was born in Wales of Norwegian parents – the child of a second marriage. His father and elder sister died when Roald was just three. His mother was left to raise two stepchildren and her own four children. Roald was her only son.
He had an unhappy time at school - at Llandaff Cathedral School, at St Peter’s prep school in Weston-super-Mare and then at Repton in Derbyshire.
Dahl’s unhappy time at school was to influence his writing greatly. He once said that what distinguished him from most other children’s writers was “this business of remembering what it was like to be young”. Roald’s childhood and schooldays are the subject of his autobiography Boy.
Since Roald Dahl’s death, his books have more than maintained their popularity. Total sales of the UK editions are around 37 million, with more than 1 million copies sold every year! Sales have grown particularly strongly in America where Dahl books are now achieving the bestselling status that curiously proved elusive during the author’s lifetime.
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