Dirty Beasts (Picture Puffins) [Paperback]

Roald Dahl (Author), Quentin Blake (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 4 and up | Series: Picture Puffins

Roald Dahl has created a ghastly menagerie of dirty beasts - all doing the most extraordinary and unmentionable things, in irreverent and absurdly comic verse. The author also wrote "Revolting Rhymes".

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Roald Dahl (1916-1990) is one of the most beloved storytellers of all time. His many popular books include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and Matilda. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Puffin; FIRST EDITIION edition (August 5, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140504354
• ISBN-13: 978-0140504354
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,605,949 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A favorite, December 17, 2003

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E. Laway "Lady E" (Temecula, California United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dirty Beasts (Paperback)

From a six year olds' point of view.
"It is fun to read and funny. I love the part of the boy with the talking tummy."

I thought some of the Rhymes might be a little to grody for a little girl, but that is the essence of this little book. She takes delight in reading it aloud to her friends at school. And she never tires of it. She is a Roald Dahl fan and I am over the moon about it. I think Dahl and his books are a great alternative or addition to Junie B. Jones and Magic Tree House. But I think ultimately he will outlast many of these other books. He is a classic.

28 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fun, silly book that children and adults would love, May 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Dirty Beasts (Picture Puffins) (Paperback)

My cousin bought me this book when I was about six and I still love it (I'm 17 now). My whole family thinks it's a hilarious book and we have given it to many of our friends for presents.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dirty Beasts, August 23, 2010

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Fort Knox - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dirty Beasts (Paperback)

Dahl and Blake are top notch in this 1983 collection of short stories. However, reading this book as an adult, I was surprised at the overt racism in one of the poems. The Flying Cow features a "horrid man who traveled from Afghanistan" and then calls him a "silly foreign freak" as the cow poops on his head. Unbelievable!