Revolting Rhymes, Written by Roald Dahl, Illustrated by Quentin Blake

Revolting Rhymes

Written by Roald Dahl

Illustrated by Quentin Blake

Grades: 1-4

Awards: Vlag en Wimpel Penseeljury (1983)

This twist on classic stories is very funny. It makes the stories rhyme and the reader laugh out loud. "Little Red Riding Hood's eyelid flickers and she pulls a pistol from her nickers!" She kills the wolf and then takes his fur and makes a coat. In the Three Little Pigs, the third pig calls Little Red Riding Hood to kill the wolf! She comes and again "pulls the pistol from her knickers" to shoot the wolf dead. She is then seen with another Wolf coat and a pig skin satchel. The other stories are just as twisted! Cinderella never marries the prince. Goldilocks is a thief and gets eaten because baby bear is hungry. Jack and the Beanstalk is about taking and bath so the Giant doesn't smell him. This is a great book!