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  • The Roald Dahl Audio Collection

  • Includes Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James & the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Enormous Crocodile & The Magic Finger
  • Written by: Roald Dahl
  • Narrated by: Roald Dahl
  • Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (121 ratings)

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The Roald Dahl Audio Collection

Written by: Roald Dahl
Narrated by: Roald Dahl
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Publisher's Summary

Roald Dahl’s wickedly funny novels have turned him into the world’s number one storyteller. In this collection five splendiferous stories are brought to life by the author himself.

  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Abridged) - Willy Wonka’s famous chocolate factory is opening at last!
  • James and the Giant Peach (Abridged) - A little magic can take you a long way
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox (Unabridged) - Nobody outfoxes Fantastic Mr. Fox!
  • The Enormous Crocodile (Unabridged) - This greedy crocodile loves to guzzle up little boys and girls
  • The Magic Finger (Unabridged) - Horrible neighbors learn their lesson from a little girl with powerful magic!
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What the critics say

“Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian...[His] stories work better in audio than in print.”(The New York Times)

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Lovely narration

Roald Dahl is such a talented storyteller. It is a treat to have him read those stories himself. (Unlike other writers who are not necessarily great readers, Roald Dahl is a talented performer as well as a talented writer.) Of course, those are abbreviated versions of the stories, but the point is to spend a few hours listening to Roald Dahl himself bring his famous characters to life. (For complete versions of the stories, buy the individual books.)

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Abriged versions

It's cool to hear the author himself (especially for the songs), but i believe that these may be abridged versions. For example in James there are no cloud monsters. Still fun.

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Willy Wonka!

My kids and I LOVED listening to Charlie and The Chocolate Factory on our roadtrip this summer! It was our first audiobook for the family and a huge hit all around! #Audible1

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Love this

I love listening to this when I’m sick I recommend this for 1 to 12. I am 12 years old myself and I still could listen to this for the rest of my life.

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Beautiful old stories

He has the perfect voice for reading old children books! A wonderful writer and storyteller

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horrible to listen to

the narrators deep voice drones on and the accent is hard to listen to! Loved these stories when I read them myself and enjoyed the movie adaptations but can't handle listening to the narrators voice!

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Roald Dahl is awsome!

This is a great book 📖 I love it the voices are a bit off though add the twits and I’ll be happy 😊

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Subtle Narration & Excellent Storytelling

My tweens LOVE this series (& I do too) Highly recommend it.

As to other reviewer’s complaints for ‘boring’ narration (by Roald Dahl, author of the books himself) - this is subtle & clever storytelling with many puns & brilliant insights into contemporary society (consider the Mike Teevee poem regarding our limited attention spans;)

The stories are unabridged & told with adequate expression. Very entertaining for older readers. Best recommended for kids used to listening to ‘more complex’ audiobooks.

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As fantastic as I remember

Loved hearing these old childhood favorites read by the author himself! Highly recommend to all young readers and the young at heart.

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I love it

Great you have a good talent for telling stories it’s amazing how you tell stories

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