Phizz-Whizzing Collection – CLV Author: Visit Amazon's Roald Dahl Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0140926526 | Format: EPUB
Phizz-Whizzing Collection – CLV Description
- Paperback
- Publisher: Penguin USA (Juv) (March 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0140926526
- ISBN-13: 978-0140926521
- Product Dimensions: 8 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 5.9 pounds
This review of Roald Dahl books is a departure from my reviews of classical recordings. The Roald Dahl children's books have been one of my great loves even as a grown-up and so I would like to do a review of his works.
This slipcased edition is a wonderful collection of his children's novels. Although each book is unique, this collected edition allows us to traverse through Dahl's writing over his 27 years of writing children's books to see how his style developed. We can also know more about the various connecting threads between the disparate stories. Interestingly this box doesn't include the poetry collections, The Minpins or The Vicar of Nibbleswicke.
Taking his children's works as a set you can get a better idea of how Dahl mixes the naughty and nice elements of his stories through constant running themes. The naughty elements of despicable characters and disgusting appearances are counterbalanced with the nice elements of fantasy, weird and wonderful characters, and meaningful relationships between children and grown-ups. I also find it interesting that Dahl touches on adult themes such as loneliness.
I like to think how the baddies are mostly cut from the same cloth. They are enormous and they look disgusting. The aunts from James and the Giant Peach, the farmers from Fantastic Mr. Fox, Miss Trunchbull, the witches and the nine child-eating giants are all drawn in a similar repulsive way, even with their unique characteristics in each book.
Beneath the facade of baddies and the fantastic settings of the stories, there are some interesting themes that run throughout the Dahl novels.
I am struck by the many positive relationships between child characters and grown-ups. We see it almost immediately in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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