PUFFIN BOOKS BY ROALD DAHL

[Pages:142]PUFFIN BOOKS BY ROALD DAHL The BFG

Boy: Tales of Childhood Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Danny the Champion of the World

Dirty Beasts The Enormous Crocodile

Esio Trot Fantastic Mr. Fox George's Marvelous Medicine The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

Going Solo James and the Giant Peach

The Magic Finger Matilda

The Minpins Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes

The Twits The Vicar of Nibbleswicke

The Witches The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More

ROALD DAHL

The BFG

ILLUSTRATED BY QUENTIN BLAKE PUFFIN BOOKS

For Olivia

20 April 1955--17 November 1962

PUFFIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Books Ltd, 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd, 182-190 Wairau Road, Auckland 10, New Zealand

Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England

First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1982 First published in the United States of America by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982

Published in Puffin Books, 1984 Reissued in this Puffin edition, 1998

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Text copyright ? Roald Dahl, 1982 Illustrations copyright ? Quentin Blake, 1982

All rights reserved

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGED THE PREVIOUS PUFFIN BOOKS EDITION UNDER CATALOG CARD NUMBER: 85-566

This edition ISBN 0-14-130105-8

Printed in the United States of America

Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar

condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

Contents

List of Characters

8

The Witching Hour

9

Who?

12

The Snatch

16

The Cave

20

The BFG

25

The Giants

31

The Marvellous Ears

38

Snozzcumbers

48

The Bloodbottler

55

Frobscottle and Whizzpoppers

64

Journey to Dream Country

70

Dream-Catching

81

A Trogglehumper for the Fleshlumpeater

87

Dreams

97

The Great Plan

115

Mixing the Dream

125

Journey to London

133

The Palace

141

The Queen

147

The Royal Breakfast

162

The Plan

176

Capture!

182

Feeding Time

199

The Author

204

The characters in this book are: HUMANS:

THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND

MARY, the Queen's maid MR TIBBS, the Palace butler

THE HEAD OF THE ARMY THE HEAD OF THE AIR FORCE

And, of course, SOPHIE, an orphan GIANTS:

THE FLESHLUMPEATER THE BONECRUNCHER

THE MANHUGGER THE CHILDCHEWER THE MEATDRIPPER THE GIZZARDGULPER THE MAIDMASHER THE BLOODBOTTLER THE BUTCHER BOY

And, of course, THE BFG

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