Revolting Rhymes (Colour Edition)

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Numa eficaz tradução de Luísa Ducla Soares e com as habituais ilustrações de Quentin Blake, Roald Dahl subverte alguns dos mais amados contos infantis com o seu famoso humor negro. She takes this into consideration and decides that she does not want to marry a prince who “chops off heads! He taught illustration for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art, of which he is an honorary professor. His first children's book was The Gremlins, about mischievous little creatures that were part of RAF folklore. Este libro ha sido mi primer acercamiento con Roald Dahl y me encantó (aunque me parece un tanto espeluznante para niños pequeños, aunque muchos cuentos clásicos también lo son🤔).

Did you think Cinderella married the prince and lived happily ever after, or that the three little pigs outsmarted the wolf? This is a choice made throughout the text as Dahl attempts to humanize a princess and a magic-based world. In The Three Little Pigs, the wolf quickly blows down the houses of straw and sticks, devouring the first two pigs. He is horrified at the thought of having this ugly woman for his bride, even though he made a promise to marry the owner of the shoe. For anyone who love revolting tales from Roald Dahl, "Revolting Rhymes" is definitely the book for you!

The second sister’s head rolls fro the scene and ends up in the kitchen where Cinderella is working.

It becomes even more poignant towards the end of the poem when Cinderella’s most important choice changes. Pegando em algumas histórias tradicionais, Roald Dahl dá-lhes uma roupagem um bocadinho mais contemporânea (sim, mesmo tendo já algumas décadas, as "perversões" descritas conseguem ser actuais), onde algumas personagens acabam por ter. He provides a re-interpretation and surprise ending instead of the traditional happily-ever-after ending. Dahl wrote more than 60 short stories and they have appeared in numerous collections, some only being published in book form after his death. Especially given Roald Dahl's age when he wrote this in the 1980s, I'm pretty certain that he did not mean it to have any sexual connotation, especially since cinderella is, by definition, someone who looks dirty and untidy all the time!

Premier storyteller Roald Dahl twists the fate of six favorite fairy tales, in this picture book edition with vibrant new cover art by Quentin Blake. So Snow White resolves to help them, and sneaks back to steal the magic mirror, which can correctly predict the winning horse and makes the seven jockeys (and Snow White) millionaires, with the moral that "Gambling is not a sin / Provided that you always win". Just like in the original story Cinderella knows she only has till midnight to enjoy the ball and then she must “run to save [her] neck. Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian…[His] stories work better in audio than in print.