Billy and the Minpins, Roald Dahl
Billy and the Minpins, Roald Dahl
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Billy and the Minpins

Author: Roald Dahl

Narrator: Bill Bailey

Unabridged: 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/13/2023


Synopsis

One of Dahl's beloved stories, now available in audio!

Billy's mum says he must never go out through the garden gate and explore the dark forest beyond. So, one day, that's exactly what he does! There he meets the Minpins, tiny tree-dwelling people whose children are the size of matchsticks. They live in fear of the terrible, galloping GRUNCHER. Will it gobble Billy too - or can he find a way to defeat the hungry beast?

From Matilda to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG, the collaboration between Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake has captured millions of children's imaginations for nearly forty years. Billy and the Minpins, this new interpretation of Roald Dahl's very last story (originally published in 1991), is just as magical.

About The Author

Roald Dahl (1916–1990) was born in Llandaff, South Wales, and went to Repton School in England. His parents were Norwegian, so holidays were spent in Norway. As he explains in Boy, he turned down the idea of university in favor of a job that would take him to "a wonderful faraway place." In 1933 he joined the Shell Company, which sent him to Mombasa in East Africa. When World War II began in 1939, he became a fighter pilot and in 1942 was made assistant air attaché in Washington, where he started to write short stories. His first major success as a writer for children was in 1964. Thereafter his children's books brought him increasing popularity, and when he died, children mourned the world over, particularly in Britain where he had lived for many years.Quentin Blake's first book, Patrick, was published in 1968 and was followed by classics such as Mister Magnolia, All Join In, and Clown. He is best known for illustrating Roald Dahl’s books. A patron of the Association of Illustrators, he was awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1980 and the international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002, and was the inaugural British Children’s Laureate from 1999 to 2001.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily on March 16, 2022

2.5 rounded up. This short Audiobook was read by Bill Bailey which was great! However the story wasn’t as great. Definitely quintessentially Dahl but very similar to his other stories.......more

Goodreads review by ☾❀Miriam✩ on June 26, 2020

And with this story, for the first time illustrated by my beloved Quentin Blake, I end my journey of reading every volume of my Roald Dahl box set. I cannot say I loved every single book - I actually despised some of them ahah - but, overall, I am glad of my better knowledge about my favourite auth......more

Goodreads review by Gavin on November 17, 2020

Fortunately there was nothing problematic that I could see in this Dahl book, which was a relief. I liked this one a lot more than some of his other ones, and it ended on quite a beautiful message of being able to see magic. I enjoyed the story behind it too, of Billy going into a perilous forest to......more

Goodreads review by Miranda on December 10, 2020

Beautiful Illustrations and Fun Storyline. This book takes a unique approach to the small-world idea. Little Billy (points off for that name) goes off on an adventure to the woods, despite his mother's warning. There he meets the Minpins - a miniature race that lives in the trees - that are terrorize......more

Goodreads review by Harun on March 20, 2022

3.5/5 "all the things he was allowed to do were boring,all the things he was not allowed to do were exciting." okay,I love roald dahl.but there is a similar pattern in most of his stories which is tiresome.he always found simplest solutions for the toughest problems and his plans never failed!!this bi......more