Roald Dahl has 29 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 52 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.6★ across 817 ratings. The most-rated is Matilda.
Matilda
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Audie Award Winner, Children's Titles for Ages 8-12, 2014 "The Trunchbull" is no match for Matilda! 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 she has a remarkable power with which to fight back. It'll take a superhuman genius to give Miss Trunchbull what she deserves and Matilda may be just the one to do it!
©1988 Roald Dahl (P)2013 Penguin Audio
The Roald Dahl Audio Collection
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Roald Dahl’s wickedly funny novels have turned him into the world’s number 1 storyteller. In this collection five splendiferous stories are brought to life by the author himself. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory(Abridged)Willy Wonka’s famous chocolate factory is opening at last! James and the Giant Peach (Abridged) A little magic can take you a long way Fantastic Mr. Fox (Unabridged) Nobody outfoxes Fantastic Mr. Fox! The Enormous Crocodile (Unabridged) This greedy crocodile loves to guzzle up little boys and girls The Magic Finger (Unabridged) Horrible neighbors learn their lesson from a little girl with powerful magic!
©2013 Penguin (P)2013 Penguin Audio
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last! But only five lucky children will be allowed inside. And the winners are: Augustus Gloop, an enormously fat boy whose hobby is eating; Veruca Salt, a spoiled-rotten brat whose parents are wrapped around her little finger; Violet Beauregarde, a dim-witted gum chewer with the fastest jaws around; Mike Teavee, a toy-pistol-toting gangster-in-training who is obsessed with television; and Charlie Bucket, Our Hero, a boy who is honest and kind, brave and true, and good and ready for the wildest time of his life!
©1964 Roald Dahl (P)2013 Penguin Audio
The Witches
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This is not a fairy tale. This is about real witches. Grandmamma loves to tell about witches. Real witches are the most dangerous of all living creatures on earth. There's nothing they hate so much as children, and they work all kinds of terrifying spells to get rid of them. Her grandson listens closely to Grandmamma's stories - but nothing can prepare him for the day he comes face-to-face with The Grand High Witch herself!
©2007 Roald Dahl (P)2007 Penguin Audio
The BFG
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“Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian... [His] stories work better in audio than in print.” (The New York Times) Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants - rather than the BFG - she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are flush-bunking off to England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her! Now a Steven Spielberg film!
©1982 Roald Dahl (P)2013 Penguin Audio
James and the Giant Peach
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A little magic can take you a long way. After James Henry Trotter's parents are tragically eaten by a rhinoceros, he goes to live with his two horrible aunts, Spiker and Sponge. Life there is no fun, until James accidentally drops some magic crystals 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, and more. With a snip of the stem, the peach starts rolling away, and the great adventure begins!
©1961 Roald Dahl (P)2013 Penguin Audio
Danny the Champion of the World
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Can Danny and his father outsmart the villainous Mr. Hazell? Danny has a life any boy would love - his home is a gypsy caravan, he's the youngest master car mechanic around, and his best friend is his dad, who never runs out of wonderful stories to tell. But one night Danny discovers a shocking secret that his father has kept hidden for years. Soon Danny finds himself the mastermind behind the most incredible plot ever attempted against nasty Victor Hazell, a wealthy landowner with a bad attitude. Can they pull it off? If so, Danny will truly be the champion of the world.
©2007 Roald Dahl (P)2007 Penguin Audio
Going Solo
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Superb stories, daring deeds, fantastic adventures! Going Solo is the action-packed tale of Roald Dahl's exploits as a World War II pilot. Learn all about his encounters with the enemy, his worldwide travels, the life-threatening injuries he sustained in a plane accident, and the rest of his sometimes bizarre, often unnerving, and always colorful adventures. Told with the same irresistible appeal that has made Roald Dahl one of the world's best-loved writers, Going Solo brings you directly into the action and into the mind of this fascinating man.
©2009 Roald Dahl (P)2013 Penguin
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
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Now that he's won the chocolate factory, what's next for Charlie? Last seen flying through the sky in a giant elevator in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie Bucket's back for another adventure. When the giant elevator picks up speed, Charlie, Willy Wonka, and the gang are sent hurtling through space and time. Visiting the world's first space hotel, battling the dreaded Vermicious Knids, and saving the world are only a few stops along this remarkable, intergalactic joyride.
©1972 Roald Dahl (P)2013 Penguin Audio
George's Marvelous Medicine
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A taste of her own medicine. George is alone in the house with Grandma. The most horrid, grizzly old grunion of a grandma ever. She needs something stronger than her usual medicine to cure her grouchiness. A special grandma medicine, a remedy for everything. And George knows just what to put into it. Grandma's in for the surprise of her life - and so is George, when he sees the results of his mixture!
©2007 Roald Dahl (P)2007 Penguin Audio
Boy
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Where did Roald Dahl get all of his wonderful ideas for stories? From his own life, of course! As full of excitement and the unexpected as his world-famous, best-selling books, Roald Dahl's tales of his own childhood are completely fascinating and fiendishly funny. Did you know that Roald Dahl nearly lost his nose in a car accident? Or that he was once a chocolate candy tester for Cadbury's? Have you heard about his involvement in the Great Mouse Plot of 1924? If not, you don't yet know all there is to know about Roald Dahl. Sure to captivate and delight you, the boyhood antics of this master storyteller are not to be missed!
©2009 Roald Dahl (P)2009 Penguin Audio
Fantastic Mr. Fox and Other Animal Stories
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Fantastic Mr. Fox: Nobody outfoxes Fantastic Mr. Fox! Someone's been stealing from the three meanest farmers around, and they know the identity of the thief - it's Fantastic Mr. Fox! Working alone they could never catch him; but now fat Boggis, squat Bunce, and skinny Bean have joined forces, and they have Mr. Fox and his family surrounded. What they don't know is that they're not dealing with just any fox - Mr. Fox would rather die than surrender. Only the most fantastic plan can save him now. Esio Trot: An ancient spell, 140 tortoises, and a little bit of magic…Mr. Hoppy is in love with his neighbor, Mrs. Silver; but she is in love with someone else - Alfie, her pet tortoise. With all her attention focused on Alfie, Mrs. Silver doesn't even know Mr. Hoppy is alive. And Mr. Hoppy is too shy to even ask Mrs. Silver over for tea. Then one day Mr. Hoppy comes up with a brilliant idea to get Mrs. Silver's attention. If Mr. Hoppy's plan works, Mrs. Silver will certainly fall in love with him. After all, everyone knows the way to a woman's heart is through her tortoise. The Enormous Crocodile: The Enormous Crocodile is a horrid greedy grumptious brute who loves to guzzle up little boys and girls. But the other animals have had enough of his cunning tricks, so they scheme to get the better of this foul fiend, once and for all! The Giraffe and The Pelly and Me Who needs a ladder when you've got a giraffe with an extended neck? The Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company certainly doesn't. They don't need a pail, either, because they have a pelican with a bucket-sized beak. With a monkey to do the washing and Billy as their manager, this business is destined for success. Now they have their big break - a chance to clean all 677 windows of the Hampshire House, owned by the richest man in all of England! That's exciting enough, but along the way there are surprises and adventures beyond their wildest window-washing dreams.
©2013 Roald Dahl (P)2013 Penguin Audio
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
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Seven superb stories, from the world's number-one storyteller Meet the boy who can talk to animals and the man who can see with his eyes closed. And find out about the treasure buried deep underground. A clever mix of fact and fiction, this collection also includes how master storyteller Roald Dahl became a writer. With Roald Dahl, you can never be sure where reality ends and fantasy begins.
©1977 Roald Dahl (P)2013 Penguin Audio
The Twits, The Minpins & The Magic Finger
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The Twits How do you outwit a Twit? Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, nastiest, ugliest people in the world. They hate everything - except playing mean jokes on each other, catching innocent 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. They don't just want out, they want revenge. The Minpins Little Billy strays into the forest, where he meets the Minpins: tiny people who live within the trees. The Minpins tell Billy about The Gruncher, who preys on them. So Billy embarks on a mission to rid the Minpins of their foe once and for all, and sets off - on the back of a swan - to confront The Gruncher. The Magic Finger What happens when the hunter becomes the hunted? To the Gregg family, hunting is just plain fun. To the girl who lives next door, it's just plain horrible. She tries to be polite. She tries to talk them out of it, but the Greggs only laugh at her. Then one day the Greggs go too far, and the little girl turns her Magic Finger on them. When she's very, very angry, the little girl's Magic Finger takes over. She really can't control it, and now it's turned the Greggs into birds! Before they know it, the Greggs are living in a nest, and that's just the beginning of their problems….
©2013 Roald Dahl (P)2013 Penguin Audio
Charlie et la chocolaterie
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"Moi, Willy Wonka, j'ai décidé de permettre à cinq enfants de visiter ma chocolaterie cette année. Ces cinq chanceux seront initiés à tous mes secrets, à toute ma magie." Willy Wonka est le plus grand inventeur de chocolats de tous les temps. Et savez-vous qui est Charlie ? Charlie Bucket est le héros de cette histoire. Il y a quatre autres enfants dans ce livre, d'affreux petits garnements, nommés Augustus Gloop (goinfre), Veruca Salt (gâtée), Violette Beauregard (mordue de chewing-gum) et Mike Teavee (obsédé par la télé). Les voilà qui arrivent, avec leur ticket d'or, à la chocolaterie Wonka ! Quels secrets vont-ils découvrir ? Notre tournée va commencer ! Mais ne vous dispersez pas ! Wonka n'aimerait pas perdre l'un de vous à ce stade... Entouré de quatre comédiens, Claude Villers raconte l'une des histoires les plus célèbres de Roald Dahl. Une interprétation exceptionnelle !
©1978 Éditions Gallimard Jeunesse. Traduit par Élisabeth Gaspar (P)2016 Éditions Gallimard Jeunesse
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Matilda [French Version]
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Tous les parents seraient fiers d'avoir une petite fille comme Matilda : mignonne, gentille et surtout dotée de facultés intellectuelles ahurissantes. Imaginez qu'à cinq ans elle a déjà lu tout Dickens, tout Hemingway et attaque Steinbeck ! Hélas pour Matilda, non seulement elle a pour géniteurs les pires crétins méchants que la terre ait portés, mais en plus Mlle Legourdin, la directrice de son école, est un monstre sadique qui hait les enfants. Heureusement pour elle, il y a Mlle Candy, l'institutrice, si douce, si gentille, si jolie...
©1988 Éditions Gallimard Jeunesse (P)2016 Éditions Gallimard Jeunesse
Charlie und die Schokoladenfabrik
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Charlies Familie ist so arm, dass er nur einmal im Jahr, an seinem Geburtstag, eine Tafel Schokolade bekommt. Doch dann gewinnt der kleine Junge eine der goldenen Eintrittskarten, mit der er die Schokoladenfabrik von Willy Wonka besichtigen darf. Dort macht er Bekanntschaft mit einem wahren Wunderland der Süßigkeiten, mit Schokoladenwasserfällen, Leucht-Lutschern und einer Bonbonjacht.
©1964 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl Nominee Ltd., aus dem Englischen von Inge M. Artl (P)2005 Der Hörverlag
Billy and the Minpins
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Billy and the Minpins by Roald Dahl, read by Bill Bailey. 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?
©2017 Roald Dahl (P)2017 Penguin AudioBooks
La potion magique de Georges Bouillon
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La plupart des grands-mères sont d'adorables vieilles dames, gentilles et serviables. Hélas, ce n'est pas le cas de celle de Georges ! Grincheuse, affreuse et égoïste, elle ressemble à une sorcière. Et puis elle a de drôles de goûts : elle se régale de limaces et de chenilles... Un jour, alors que sa grand-mère vient une fois de plus de le terroriser, Georges s'enferme dans la cuisine pour lui préparer une redoutable potion magique. Une potion aux effets surprenants, extraordinaires, hilarants... Même les grands-mères s'amuseront à entendre cette histoire !
©1982 Éditions Gallimard Jeunesse (P)2004 Éditions Gallimard Jeunesse
Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts
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Revolting Rhymes Did you think Cinderella married the prince and lived happily ever after, or that the three little pigs outsmarted the wolf? Think again! Master storyteller Roald Dahl adds his own darkly comic twists to six favorite tales, complete with rambunctious rhymes and hilarious surprise endings. Dirty Beasts Roald Dahl's inimitable style and humor shine in this collection of poems about mischievous and mysterious animals. From Stingaling the scorpion to Crocky-Wock the crocodile, Dahl's animals are nothing short of ridiculous. A clever pig with an unmentionable plan to save his own bacon and an anteater with an unusually large appetite are among the characters created by Dahl in these timeless rhymes. This new, larger edition is perfect for listening.
©2009 Roald Dahl (P)2009 Penguin Audio