Vile Verses

by Dahl, Roald (Author)

• ISBN13: 9780670060429
• ISBN10: 0670060429
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-20
• Publisher: Viking Juvenile

Summary

Roald Dahl is best remembered as the author of many well-loved children's stories. But he was also the creator of some astonishingly imaginative, outrageous, and wonderfully disgusting verses. From oozing grobes to slimy slugs, this extraordinary collection is bursting with Dahl's poems, verses, and songs. And with full-color original illustrations from a distinguished group of more than twenty artists, including Quentin Blake,William Joyce, and Lane Smith, this lavish volume is a must-have for any Dahl fan's library.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Part One THERE ARE THINGS TO SEE AND DO
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me	14	(2)
Chris Wormell
The Centipede's Song	16	(3)
Joel Stewart
Another Centipede Song	19	(1)
Chris Riddell
Willy Wonka's Wonka-Vite	20	(6)
Geefwee Boedoe
Part Two BEST BEHAVIOUR
Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs	26	(11)
Babette Cole
Goldilocks and the three Bears	37	(7)
Lauren Child
Concerning Augustus Gloop	44	(4)
Mini Grey
Concerning Mike Teavee	48	(7)
Posy Simmonds
Concerning Violet Beauregarde	55	(3)
Mini Grey
Concerning Veruca Salt	58	(2)
Posy Simmonds
The Tortoise and the Hare	60	(12)
Axel Scheffler
The Shark	72	(8)
Lane Smith
Part Three UNLIKELY CREATURES
The Grobes	80	(2)
Chris Wormell
The Ant-Eater	82	(6)
William Joyce
The Tummy Beast	88	(2)
Babette Cole
The Toad and the Snail	90	(10)
Chris Wormell
The Porcupine	100	(5)
Satoshi Kitamura
There's No Knowing What We Shall See	105	(4)
Emma Chichester Clark
The Nicest Creatures in the World	109	(7)
Alexis Deacon
Willy Wonka's Song of Defiance to the Knids	116	(8)
Joann Sfar
Part Four POISONOUS POSSIBILITIES
Down Vith Children!	124	(3)
Bee Willey
George's Marvellous Medicine	127	(3)
Neal Layton
I'm Going Going Going	130	(2)
Neal Layton
Goldie Pinklesweet	132	(10)
Tony Ross
Part Five LOOK WHO'S HERE
Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker About Themselves	142	(2)
Babette Cole
The Centipede's Song of Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker	144	(3)
Babette Cole
The Nurse's Song	147	(3)
Chris Riddell
Jack and Jill	150	(2)
Russell Ayto
Boggis and Bunce and Bean	152	(1)
Helen Oxenbury
Miranda Mary Piker	153	(1)
Lauren Child
Declaration of the Grand High Witch	154	(6)
Bee Willey
Part Six ALL TOGETHER NOW
Crocodile Rhymes	160	(2)
David McKee
Pelican Songs	162	(2)
Mini Grey
The Giraffe's Song	164	(2)
Mini Grey
The Monkey's Song	166	(1)
Mini Grey
The Duchess's Song	167	(1)
Mini Grey
Willy Wonka's Song of the Oompa-Loompas	168	(2)
Neal Layton
The Oompa-Loompas' Song of Welcome	170	(1)
Neal Layton
Plussy as Plussy Can Be	171	(1)
Neal Layton
Centipede's Favourite Song	172	(2)
John Lawrence
Song of the Hairy-Green Caterpillar	174	(1)
John Lawrence
Song of the Roly-Poly Bird	175	(5)
Emma Chichester Clark
Part Seven AND A FEW SURPRISES
Gray's Eulogy	180	(2)
Peter Bailey
A Ballade Against Umpires	182	(3)
Peter Bailey
Poems Written to Schools	185	(1)
David Roberts
Mister Unsworth	186	(2)
David Roberts
A Nobleman Visiting Coutts	188
Gerald Scarfe
Index