The BFG Classic Paperback

A paperback edition of Roald Dahl’s classic The BFG.

"'You stay where you is in my pocket, huggybee,' he said. 'We is doing this lovely bit of buckswashling both together.'"

Roald Dahl’s well-loved story of a Big Friendly Giant who spirits an orphan, Sophie, out of bed to the land of the child-eating giants. Soon Sophie and her BFG are thinking up ways to get rid of the Fleshlumpeater, the Bonecruncher and the other giants who love to gobble up human beans....

With lively black-and-white illustrations by Quentin Blake throughout and a section of exciting facts about the BFG and Roald Dahl at the back of the book.

This Penguin Books collection keeps Roald Dahl's classic texts in print. It sits along the 2023 range of Puffin Books and allows readers to decide how they experience Roald Dahl's magical, marvellous stories. Readers will now be free to choose which version of Dahl's stories they prefer, and we stock both!

The Classic Collection books include an introduction to the Museum and unique archive material relevant to each of the stories. This material has been specially selected from the Museum's collection and gives readers a peek into Roald Dahl's writing process.

The twenty titles in the Classic Collection include all seventeen of Roald Dahl's famous children's books (including two autobiographical texts, Boy and Going Solo) as well as the rhyme collections Dirty Beasts, Rhyme Stew and Revolting Rhymes.