The Roald Dahl Collection

Five vintage Dahl stories: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Magic Finger (the same recording is also available on LfP double cassette), James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr Fox and The Enormous Crocodile, boxed together in this quality bargain collection. Although there are other versions of these stories - Fantastic Mr Fox well read by Lionel Jefferies on Puffin Cover to Cover; James and the Gaint Peach is one of Rainbow's imaginatively dramatised Dahl titles for example - these older, re-released recordings are read by the storyteller himself. Not all authors make good narrators. Roald Dahl is an exception; he's a brilliant reader. (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Allen & Unwin, 0 04 823303 X, 7.95; 0 14 03.1824 0, 2.25 pbk The Magic Finger, A & U, 0 04 823080 4, £4.95; 0 14 03.0704 4, £1.50 pbk James and the Gaint Peach, A & U, 0 04 823078 2, £6.95; 0 14 03.0623 4, £1.99 pbk Fantastic Mr Fox, A & U, 0 04 823096 0, £5.95; 0 14 03.2671 5, £1.75 pbk The Enormous Crocodile, Cape, 0 224 01579 6, £5.95; 0 14 050.342 0, £2.99 pbk - all paperbacks from Puffin)