The best Roald Dahl book EVER

[Kenneth Wattle]

Chaz and the Choc factory beaten only just by George's Marvellous Medecine in my view..

 

[Son of a hillbilly]

Im too young to be nostalgic .I need to read more of his books before I decide.

 

[Simster]

Strange you ask this Edna. It's very pertinant to me as we bought his entire "child" collection for our two kids as bed time story reading. Only about £8 from some book club I think!

Wife and I have read to the kids in the past 2 months:
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
James & the Giant Peach
Fantastic Mr Fox
The Twits
George's Marvellous Medicine
Finished Danny the Champion of the World yesterday
Just started The Witches today, which leaves The BFG

They're nearly all great reads, although Danny is overrated. The Twits is really great but James is absolutely fantastic. My fave so far, although I like the opening of The Witches

 

[fatbadger]

I do believe that all of us has one book (or, most likely, one fictional hero) which is extremely important to our early development. Mine is definitely Danny. I haven't read it for years, so this analysis might not stand up, but I remember sitting in school thinking "this is a pile of shite, authority sucks, the law is an ass, f*** your petty tyrannies" (I'm paraphrasing) one morning after having read Danny the previous evening. In the short run it didn't seem to do me any favours (expelled from four schools, for instance), but in the long run, I consider that the most important lesson I learned as a kid. I will always love Danny for that, and I've already bought nice hardback copies for my kids even though neither of them can read yet.

 

[Simster]

I do believe that all of us has one book (or, most likely, one fictional hero) which is extremely important to our early development. Mine is definitely Danny. I haven't read it for years, so this analysis might not stand up, but I remember sitting in school thinking "this is a pile of shite, authority sucks, the law is an ass, f*** your petty tyrannies" (I'm paraphrasing) one morning after having read Danny the previous evening. In the short run it didn't seem to do me any favours (expelled from four schools, for instance), but in the long run, I consider that the most important lesson I learned as a kid. I will always love Danny for that, and I've already bought nice hardback copies for my kids even though neither of them can read yet.

It is funny, I remember loving Danny as a 10yo kid, but having literally finished reading it to my own kids only *yesterday*, I felt it really was a bit of a long winded yarn. Maybe in the days of materialism that we now live in, it has lost it's relevance (for me anyway).

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

I always found Boy quite funny.

The dead rat under the floor board.

All great books and so much better than any of the Potter books.

 

[Skint Gull]

This is officially the TOUGHEST poll ever on NSC

 

[Lady Whistledown]

The Chocolate Factory is making a comeback

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Fantastic Mr Fox.

I have never understood how drugging a few pheasants made Danny "the all time champion of the world"...

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Fantastic Mr Fox.

I have never understood how drugging a few pheasants made Danny "the all time champion of the world"...

I'm trying to remember this now...did he do it with raisins, or something like that

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Yeah, raisins. The tinker. Still, whatever his achievements in the foul doping arena, it hardly qualified his dad's boast of 'all time champion of the world' status.

More deserving of having his hand chopped off for theft if you ask me.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Pheasants are that stupid, in all honesty, I doubt it would take much to poach them.

I mean, you've only got to drive down the A272, for example, at a fairly meandering speed, to witness a plump pheasant or two strut out into the road in front of your car, pausing for a moment to ponder the inevitable consequences of their intended actions, before performing a pheasanty shrug and continuing their life's journey under the wheels of your Ford Focus.

The world's dumbest bird, no doubt about it. Champion of the World? I think not.

 

[The Brighton Ace]

Best book by R Dahl - On Democracy; bloody brilliant read.

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

Great poll... impossible to answer though!

Best childrens writer or all time. FACT.

 

[perseus]

Kiss, Kiss

 

[Biscuit]

Between The Witches and Fantastic Mr Fox for me!! Went for The Witches

 

[Badger]

I am finding it very difficult to pick a winner, Roald Dahl defined much of my childhood (along with the Narnia books).

I think, if you really pushed me, I'd have to say BFG is my favourite.

 

[bright1064]

George's Marvellous Medicine was a real favourite of mine when I was younger, because it was only a short tale and very easy to read.
My personal favourites now would be Matilda and Charlie & The Chocolate factory.