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Fantastic Mr Fox
Mr Fox faces off with farmers Boggis, Bunce, and Bean.
Roald Dahl is not just the best at his type of kids’ stories, he’s the only.
No one else manages to tell stories that so completely adopt the child’s worldview while remaining readable for adults.
Here’s my tiered list
S tier:
Danny the Champion of the World
Matilda
The BFG
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
A tier:
Fantastic Mr Fox
James and the Giant Peach
B tier:
George’s Marvelous Medicine
The Minpins
C tier:
The Witches
The Twits
Esio Trot
D tier:
The Giraffe, the Pelly, and Me
The Magic Finger
The Enormous Crocodile
But like I said above, these all exist in a separate Roald Dahl tier. I read Fantastic Mr Fox to my youngest, who recently turned three, and he was transfixed. Normally he bounces off the walls, but I only had to refocus him a few times over the course of the five nights we read this.
It’s like magic.
And yeah, the movie is exquisite.
Buy the entire set of large format books Illustrated by Quentin Blake on the day your first child is born and read them all together.
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