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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Fantastic book for kids! So imaginative and creative. Easy read that children will find delightful!
Roald Dahl is always brilliant! His stories and rhymes are fun and entertaining! Some of my all time favorites!! Such a great way to entertain children and get them interested in reading!
Roald Dahl is always brilliant! His stories and rhymes are fun and entertaining! Some of my all time favorites!! Such a great way to entertain children and get them interested in reading!
Little Billy was told to NEVER go into the Forest of Sin. It was full of terrible creatures that could stomp you flat or eat you right up. So of course, it's the most tempting place EVER, right? What could a little boy do but sneak out the window and make his way into that terrfying place?
What he finds there will shock, frighten and amaze him. Because not only are there beasties that do really want to eat you, but there is also a civilization of tiny people who live in trees. Once Little Billy makes their acquaintance, his life will never be the same.
Dahl is the king of awesome word choice. My six year old made me read this to him MULTIPLE times: Terrible Bloodsuckling Toothpluckling Stonechuckling SPITTLER. Seriously. That is just fun to read aloud. This is a short book, too long for one sitting (we did it in maybe 5 shortish ones) but not a chapter book either. The action ebbs and flows a bit for my boys, they got restless sometimes, although they were always happy to sit down and listen (I'd give it maybe 3.5 stars). It is delightful, though, the way that Dahl always allows the child to be the hero of the day, it even makes me as an adult reader wonder if maybe magic is really out there and I just can't see it
What he finds there will shock, frighten and amaze him. Because not only are there beasties that do really want to eat you, but there is also a civilization of tiny people who live in trees. Once Little Billy makes their acquaintance, his life will never be the same.
Dahl is the king of awesome word choice. My six year old made me read this to him MULTIPLE times: Terrible Bloodsuckling Toothpluckling Stonechuckling SPITTLER. Seriously. That is just fun to read aloud. This is a short book, too long for one sitting (we did it in maybe 5 shortish ones) but not a chapter book either. The action ebbs and flows a bit for my boys, they got restless sometimes, although they were always happy to sit down and listen (I'd give it maybe 3.5 stars). It is delightful, though, the way that Dahl always allows the child to be the hero of the day, it even makes me as an adult reader wonder if maybe magic is really out there and I just can't see it
I think this is one of the only Roald Dahl books that I had only read the once and then never gone back to but I’m not entirely sure why that would be the case.
This is a very short and quite cute story about a young boy called Billy who is always promising his mother that he is being good, but who manages to sneak away for an adventure and to discover the Minpins living in the forest near his house.
This feels like very early Dahl so there isn’t some of the same polish as with his more recognisable books but it is still unmistakably Dahl that it just makes you smile all over again as you read through it.
This is a very short and quite cute story about a young boy called Billy who is always promising his mother that he is being good, but who manages to sneak away for an adventure and to discover the Minpins living in the forest near his house.
This feels like very early Dahl so there isn’t some of the same polish as with his more recognisable books but it is still unmistakably Dahl that it just makes you smile all over again as you read through it.
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
challenging
dark
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Billy dreams of going through the gate and into the Forest of Sin, but his mother won't have it. One day, when she's in another room ironing, Billy is sitting idly thinking about such a thing when the Devil whispers in his ear to do it, and Billy does. However, the forest is home to a frightful creature, and Billy is soon chased by it until he climbs a tree. How will Billy get out of the forest? And what will he witness?
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
I didn't particularly like this one. It lacked charm and magic—not magic as in supernatural, but magic as in captivating, enchanting. I also thought it ended too many pages after it should have ended.
I wish the forest had been named something else. Something better. Something with a bit more oomph. Sin is terrible, but it isn’t a scary word. Considering the forest, according to Billy’s mum, is supposed to be home to many fearsome creatures, a scarier word could have been used for the name of the forest instead.
Billy is an underdeveloped character. You don’t get to know Billy or the Minpins. Who are the Minpins? Where did they come from? Why are they small?
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
I didn't particularly like this one. It lacked charm and magic—not magic as in supernatural, but magic as in captivating, enchanting. I also thought it ended too many pages after it should have ended.
I wish the forest had been named something else. Something better. Something with a bit more oomph. Sin is terrible, but it isn’t a scary word. Considering the forest, according to Billy’s mum, is supposed to be home to many fearsome creatures, a scarier word could have been used for the name of the forest instead.
Billy is an underdeveloped character. You don’t get to know Billy or the Minpins. Who are the Minpins? Where did they come from? Why are they small?
A sweet Dahlian short story. There is lots that's whimsical (the names of the monsters, that there are teeny tiny people living in trees). Everything happens very quickly to a sweet ending.
There were lots of little details that even out-of-reality felt like he was drawing from real life, like the idea that robins love children, the childlike experience of going 'what if I could fly on birds?' the wish fulfilment of 'what if my friends came after bedtime to see me?'. Purely speculation but I wonder if when he is talking about people living in clouds that was something he actually thought about and came up with while he was flying planes, or the description on birds on a lake from far above.
There were lots of little details that even out-of-reality felt like he was drawing from real life, like the idea that robins love children, the childlike experience of going 'what if I could fly on birds?' the wish fulfilment of 'what if my friends came after bedtime to see me?'. Purely speculation but I wonder if when he is talking about people living in clouds that was something he actually thought about and came up with while he was flying planes, or the description on birds on a lake from far above.
“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
This is Roald Dahl's last written work for Children Literature and I believe his best one.
It's so beautiful, and the hidden message (meaning) so strong and powerful.
This is Roald Dahl's last written work for Children Literature and I believe his best one.
It's so beautiful, and the hidden message (meaning) so strong and powerful.