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Professional tricksters put your cunning to the test. Inside this wicked little book you'll find step-by-step instructions for making mischief and mayhem as well as outrageous jokes, fiendish quizzes, and a few smelly surprises. Includes extracts from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, The Witches, and more. Like The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets, this book is a wonderful complement to Roald Dahl novels, with tons of great extras fans will love. It’s the perfect way to complete your Dahl collection!
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Release date
April 14, 2015 -
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780698164499
- File size: 33754 KB
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780698164499
- File size: 33794 KB
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- Lexile® Measure: 820
- Text Difficulty: 3-4
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Reviews
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December 15, 2014
Attention, pranksters in search of inspiration! Learn from a master with this mix of extracted passages, quizzes and fresh, sometimes even feasible, exploits.Warning adults away at the outset, Woodward begins with a biographical sketch. She then goes on to alternate pranktastic highlights from Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, Boy, Fantastic Mr. Fox and other works with suggestions for (somewhat) less destructive enrichment activities. The latter feature totally arbitrary difficulty ratings and range from fitting a jelly worm into a peach to such less-likely tricks as capturing a dodo-"YOU WILL NEED: One time machine. One sherry trifle. One net"- or a Vermicious Knid. One particularly fiendish prank instructs readers to render a computer mouse inoperative with a small piece of sticky tape. For changes of pace, frequent quizzes challenge readers to pick from a list the revolting items that were in Mr Twit's beard and like diversions. As ever, Blake's scribbled vignettes add suitably frolicsome notes. Along with tempting hesitant fans-"Go on, do it. Roald Dahl would"-this sampler may persuade "the 27 people on the planet who haven't heard of him" to a better acquaintance. A properly subversive spinoff. (answers section) (Humor. 9-12)COPYRIGHT(2014) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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