Roald Dahl - The BFG
   BBC Radio Show

The BFG (which stands for "Big Friendly Giant") is a children's book written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake, first published in 1982. An animated film based on the book was released in 1989 with David Jason providing the voice of the BFG and Amanda Root as the voice of Sophie (a character Dahl based on his own granddaughter). The book was an expansion of a story told in Danny, the Champion of the World, an earlier Dahl book. The book won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.

Five-year old Matilda longs for her parents to be good and loving and understanding, but they are none of these things. They are perfectly horrid to her. Matilda invents a game of punishing them each time they treat her badly and she soon discovers she has supernatural powers.

 Roald Dahl - The Witches
      BBC Radio Show

In fairy tales witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks and they ride on broomsticks. But this is not a fairy tale. This is about real witches. Real witches dress in ordinary clothes and look very much like ordinary women. They live in ordinary houses and they work in ordinary jobs. That is why they are so hard to catch.

Grade 7-10 - Science-Fiction, , African culture. The Ear, the Eye, and The Arm is one of the better books on the market this year. It definitely ranks as one to be recommended without reservations. It has tremendous value for a classroom as well - there are so many different layers that could be explored and lead to further research ( maybe you could use it for one of your reading/writing/listening  assignments next year). Regardless of its "educational" value, the entertainment value is high. It's a book  to re-read many times.
rescuing the children.

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