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Roald Dahl MFThe Magic Finger.: Allen & Unwin, 1966.
Roald Dahl FMFFantastic Mr Fox.: Allen & Unwin, 1970.
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Roald Dahl GMMGeorge's Marvellous Medicine.: Cape, 1981.
Roald Dahl BFG The BFG.: Cape, 1982.
Roald Dahl TWThe Witches.: Cape, 1983.
Roald Dahl BTCBoy: Tales of Childhood.: Cape, 1984.
Roald Dahl DBDirty Beasts.: Cape, 1984.
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Jonathon Culley was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School and Oxford University. He is teaching at a Preparatory School in Hampshire.
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Culley, J. Roald Dahl—“It's about children and it's for children”-but is it suitable?. Child Lit Educ 22, 59–73 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01139908
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