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  • Published: 24 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141340555
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $12.99

Roald Dahl's Marvellous Joke Book




Laugh out loud with Roald Dahl in this brilliant little book of phizz-whizzing, whoopsy-splunking jokes!

Which famous writer goes best with a hot dog? Roll Dahl of course!

Jokes, limericks, riddles, Knock knock and Doctor, doctor! Here is a perfect joke book for young children, specially themed around Roald Dahl's best-loved characters, such as Charlie, George, The BFG, Matilda, James and many more.

Roald Dahl was always full of fun and mischief and loved all kinds of jokes - the sillier the better! From chocolate-covered chickens to grizzly grouchy grandmas to the disgusting Twits this marvellous collection has over 400 jokes, and includes Roald Dahl's very own, extremely silly 'Knock, knock' jokes - guaranteed to keep his fans amused for hours.

Illustrated throughout by the inimitable Quentin Blake.

  • Published: 24 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141340555
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $12.99

About the authors

Quentin Blake

Quentin Blake has been drawing ever since he can remember. He taught illustration for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art, of which he is an honorary professor. He has won many prizes, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, the Eleanor Farjeon Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal, and in 1999 he was appointed the first Children’s Laureate. In the 2013 New Year’s Honours List he was knighted for services to illustration.

Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. He was also the author of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG and many more brilliant stories.