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Roald Dahl Rhyme Stew ROALD DAHL RHYME STEW Illustrated by QUENTIN BLAKE Other books by Roald Dahl THE BFG BOY: TALES OF CHILDHOOD GOING SOLO BOY and GOING SOLO CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY CHARLIE AND THE GREAT GLASS ELEVATOR THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF CHARLIE AND MR WILLY WONKA DANNY THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD ESIO TROT GEORGE’S MARVELLOUS MEDICINE JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH MATILDA THE TWITS THE WITCHES For younger readers FANTASTIC MR FOX THE GIRAFFE AND THE PELLY AND ME THE MAGIC FINGER Picture Books DIRTY BEASTS with Quentin Blake THE ENORMOUS CROCODILE with Quentin Blake THE GIRAFFE AND THE PELLY AND ME with Quentin Blake THE MINPINS with Patrick Benson THE GIRAFFE AND THE PELLY AND ME with Quentin Blake REVOLTING RHYMES with Quentin Blake For older readers THE GREAT AUTOMATIC GRAMMATIZATOR AND OTHER STORIES THE VICAR OF NIBBLESWICKE THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR AND SIX MORE Roald Dahl Rhyme Stew Illustrations by Quentin Blake PENGUIN BOOKS For Liccy PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R ORL, England Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto. Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 Penguin Books India (P) Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi - 110 017, India Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd, Cnr Rosedale and Airborne Roads, Albany, Auckland, New Zealand Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank 2196 South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R ORL, England www.penguin.com First published by Jonathan Cape Ltd 1989 Published in Penguin Books 1990 17 Text copyright © Roald Dahl, 1989 Illustrations copyright © Quentin Blake, 1989 All rights reserved Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives pic Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser Contents Dick Whittington and His Cat 7 Stives 16 A Hand in the Bird 17 The Tortoise and the Hare 19 The Price of Debauchery 30 Physical Training 31 The Emperor’s New Clothes 33 A Little Nut-Tree 41 The Dentist and the Crocodile 43 Hot and Cold 45 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves 47 Hey Diddle Diddle 54 Mary, Mary 55 Hansel and Gretel 57 Aladdin and the Magic Lamp 67 Mary, Mary, quite contrary How does your garden grow? ‘I live with m y brat in a high-rise flat so how in the world would I know.* ‘After the irresistible success of Revolting Rhymes, a collection for older children, and almost certainly adults as well... There is no end to the Dahl invention, and this will join all the other cherished favourites. Quentin Blake is his perfect illustrator.’ - Books ‘Viciously funny and at times distinctly risqué’ - Vogue ‘Wickedly funny’ - Spectator ISBN 0-14-034365-2 PENGUIN U.K. £4.99 CAN. $9.99 9 780140 343656.
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