Quentin Blake
1) Matilda
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Oficina Do Livro
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Portuguese
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O pai da Matilda acha que a filha não é mais do que uma crosta. A mãe passa o tempo a jogar bingo e a ver televisão. A stôra Docemel é a única que vê o potencial da menina. A Sra. Partetudo, diretora da Escola Tiraniza, julga todos os alunos burros e fecha-os dentro da Pildra. E a Matilda... é uma menina dotada de uma grande inteligência, que se cansou do comportamento idiota dos adultos e vai ensinar-lhes uma grande lição!...
2) As Bruxas
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Oficina Do Livro
Pub. Date
2019
Language
Portuguese
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As BRUXAS VERDADEIRAS vestem roupa normal e parecem-se muito com mulheres normais. Vivem em casas normais, têm empregos normais, detestam crianças. E têm um lema: Uma criança por semana são cinquenta e duas por ano.Façam-nas gritar, estrebuchar e desaparecer.  A Grande Bruxa-Mor de Todo o Mundo é a mais assustadora de todas, mas um rapazinho e a sua avó, que ele adora, têm um plano para se livrar de todas as bruxas para sempre!...
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Oficina Do Livro
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Portuguese
Description
O que Charlie mais adora no mundo é chocolate. O cheiro e o sabor fazem as suas maravilhas, mas são também a sua tortura. A fábrica do senhor Wonka, o melhor e mais prestigiado inventor de chocolate do planeta, encontra-se fechada há muitos anos, mas vai permitir a visita a cinco sortudos. Quem encontrar os cinco Bilhetes Dourados, emitidos e escondidos nos diversos chocolates, irá visitá-la e receberá todos os tipos de doces Wonka,...
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Oficina Do Livro
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Portuguese
Description
O Danny acha que tem o pai mais maravilhoso e entusiasmante que alguma vez existiu. Mas o pai do Danny esconde um grande segredo. Um segredo que os conduzirá à mais estranha aventura das suas vidas e a um plano audacioso que fará do Danny o campeão do mundo.
5) Os Idiotas
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Publisher
Oficina Do Livro
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Portuguese
Description
Rãs na cama!Olhos na bebida!Minhocas no espaguete!O Sr. e a Sra. Idiota são verdadeiramente asquerosos.Cheiram mal porque não se lavam, discutem porque passam a vida a pregar partidas um ao outro e odeiam crianças. Mas, pior do que isso, têm quatro macacos no quintal das traseiras. Dentro de uma jaula.Está na hora de os macacos se vingarem destas duas criaturas horrendas
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Oficina Do Livro
Pub. Date
2018
Language
Portuguese
Description
Os pais do James Henry Trotter são tragicamente devorados por um rinoceronte e ele é obrigado a ir viver com as suas tias horríveis. A vida em casa da tia Sponge e da tia Spiker não é nada agradável, até ao dia em que o James recebe uns pequenos cristais mágicos e coisas invulgares acontecem. No topo do velho pessegueiro, nasce um pêssego que cresce tanto até ficar do tamanho de uma casa. Lá dentro, o James conhece a Centopeia, a Minhoca,...
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Oficina Do Livro
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Portuguese
Description
O GGG é um gigante simpático e foforucho. Na verdade, é o único grande gigante gentil no País dos Gigantes.Todos os outros gigantes são brutamontes bestialmente brutos, e agora o GGG e a sua amiga Sofia têm de os impedir de devorar pequenos cereais humanos com a ajuda de Sua Majestade, a Rainha de Inglaterra.
8) Esio Trot
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Shy Mr. Hoppy devises a plan to win the heart of his true love by teaching her a spell to make her tortoise grow bigger. Mr. Hoppy keeps substituting ever-larger tortoises for Mrs. Silver's pet Alfie, in hopes of convincing her to marry him. Mr. Hoppy is smitten with Mrs. Silver, whose main concern is her tortoise. Mr. Hoppy's love for the flowers he grows on his balcony is exceeded only by his love for Mrs. Silver, the lady who lives in the apartment...
9) The BFG
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The well-loved story of a big friendly giant who spirits a child out of bed to the land of the child-eating giants. Every night, when the world is sleeping, big gruesome giants guzzle up whoppsy-whiffling human beans. And there's only one giant who can stop them, the BFG. He's the kindest giant there is and, with his friend Sophie in his top pocket, he sets out to rid the world of the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater and all their rotsome friends...
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GENERAL FICTION (CHILDREN'S / TEENAGE). Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World's number one Storyteller! Billy's biggest wish is to turn a weird old wooden house into a wonderful sweet-shop. But then he finds a giraffe, a pelly and a monkey living inside - they're the Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company! Who needs ladders when you've got a giraffe? They become best friends and when they meet the richest man in all of England, there's...
11) Matilda
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Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different, but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating terror of a headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull, she suddenly discovers...
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"Boggis is an enormously fat chicken farmer who only eats boiled chickens smothered in fat. Bunce is a duck-and-goose farmer whose dinner gives him a beastly temper. Bean is a turkey-and-apple farmer who only drinks gallons of strong cider. Mr Fox is so clever that every evening he creeps down into the valley and helps himself to food from the farms. Now the farmers have hatched a plan to Bang-Bang-Bang shoot Mr Fox dead. But, just when they think...
14) The Twits
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Twit are the smelliest, nastiest, ugliest people in the world. They hate everything -- except playing mean jokes on each other, catching unsuspecting birds to put in their bird pies, and making their caged monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, stand on their heads all day. But the Muggle-Wumps have had enough. With the help of Roly-Poly Bird, they set out to get some well-deserved revenge.
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CLASSIC FICTION (CHILDREN'S / TEENAGE). Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world's No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork. Danny lives in a gipsy caravan with his father, the most marvellous and exciting father any boy ever had. All the land around them belongs to Mr Victor Hazell, a rich snob with a great glistening beery face and tiny piggy eyes. Nobody likes him, not one-little...
16) Arabel's raven
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Arabel and Mortimer series volume 1
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English
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The injured raven Arabel's father brings home can say only "Kaark" and "Nevermore" but he still manages to make great changes in the family's life.
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Arabel and Mortimer series volume 2
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English
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Presents three previously published works about a pet raven named Mortimer, who talks, eats everything in sight, and causes all sorts of trouble.
19) The witches
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GENERAL FICTION (CHILDREN'S / TEENAGE). Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world's No. 1 storyteller, Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork. The Witches by Roald Dahl is the story of a detestable breed of Witches. Beware. Real witches dress in ordinary clothes and look like ordinary women. But they are not ordinary. They are always plotting and scheming with murderous, bloodthirsty thoughts...
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After James Henry Trotter's parents are tragically eaten by a rhinoceros, he goes to live with his two horrible aunts. Life there is no fun, until James receives some magical, tiny green things and accidentally drops them by the old peach tree and strange things start to happen. The peach at the top of the tree begins to grow, and before long it's as big as a house. Inside, James meets a bunch of oversized friends-- Grasshopper, Centipede, Ladybug,...