The BFG

The BFG: There are few things more terrifying than beeing snatched out of your bed at night by a giant four times as tall as the tallest human with a stride as long as a tennis court. But it happens to orphan Sophie. One moment she sees a giant lurking in the street, blowing something from a glass jar into children's bedrooms; the next, she is in his grasp and beeing rushed at a fantastic speed through the darkness...
Matilda: Matilda is brillant - sensitive and brillant. But Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood treat her as a scab, not a daughter, a scab to be endured until the time comes to flick her away to the next county, or preferably further. Before she is five years old Matilda has read Dickens, Hemingway, Kipling and Steinbeck, but still her parents think her just a nuisance. So she decides to get her own back...
Georges Marvellous Medicine: George has a miserable Grandma - a grousing, grouching old thing who won't leave him alone. She is selfish and ugly, hates children and sometimes is so frightening that George suspects she is a witch. 'Don't forget my medicine,' she bullies. No, George won't forget Grandma's medicine. He is planning a very remarkable concoction for her 11 o'clock spoonful...
Three brillantly inventive stories with characters so vividly and hilariously portrayed, they will live for ever in the imagination of every child and adult who has the good luck to meet them.