They were murderous, brutal-looking monsters.' - Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. We'll have him out in five minutes with mechanical shovels.' - Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. 'I shall be tail-less for the rest of my life.' He looked very glum.' - Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. a fox's tale.' - Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr.

'One of them shone a flashlight on the hole, and there on the ground, in the circle of light, half in and half out of the hole, lay the poor tattered blood stained remains of.

Bunce reeks of goose livers, and as for Bean, the fumes of apple cider hang around him like poisonous gasses.' - Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Boggis gives off a filthy stink of rotten chicken-skins. Fox and their four small Foxes.' - Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. These horrible crooks So different in looks Were nonetheless equally mean.' - Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr.

'Boggis and Bunce and Bean One fat, one short, one lean.

All three of them were about as nasty and mean as any men you could meet.' - Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr.

'Down in the valley, there were three farms.

In 1999 he became the first ever Children’s Laureate and in 2013 he was knighted for services to illustration.

As an author he has written and illustrated a number of bestselling children’s books including The Green Shipand Angelica Sprocket’s Pockets. One of Britain’s finest living illustrators, Quentin Blake has put pictures to more than three hundred books and was Roald Dahl’s favourite illustrator. He remains the world’s number one storyteller. He was also the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG and many more brilliant stories. Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. No-one is more cunning than fantastic Mr Fox and he has some tricks up his sleeve to make the farmers wish they’d never thought to out-smart the smartest creature of all. Waterstones takes you underground to join a courageous crew of woodland animals led by fantastic Mr Fox as they try to stay one step ahead of the farmers. Every night cunning Mr Fox creeps into their farms and helps himself to a delicious dinner, but now Mr Boggis, Mr Bunce and Mr Bean have other ideas. They usually spend their time gobbling down enormous dinners of boiled chicken, duck-filled doughnuts washed down with gallons of cider but now these three repulsive specimens are at war.įor under a tree on the hill nearby live a fox and his friends: Mr Badger, Mr Mole, Mr Weasel, Mr Rabbit and their families. These three men are farmers and a more disgusting trio cannot be imagined. I hope you’ve never had the misfortune to meet anyone as cruel and callous as Mr Boggis, Mr Bunce and Mr Bean.

I’ll tell you what we don’t do,” Bean said “We don’t let him go!”

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