Splendiferous Stories
By (Author) Roald Dahl
Illustrated by Quentin Blake
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Puffin
8th July 2025
17th April 2025
United Kingdom
Children
Non Fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Literature, books and writers
808.02
Hardback
96
Width 202mm, Height 247mm, Spine 14mm
496g
Develop creative writing skills with inspiration from the world of Roald Dahl. Who can be a writer You can! Start the story machine, choose your heroes and villains, and you're off - from brilliant beginnings and magnificent middles to excellent endings! These fun activities and writing prompts will help to expand vocabulary and language skills. Find out how to set the scene, give your characters a voice, and guide them through the action. Top it off with a tremendous title, and by the end of this book you'll have written your very own splendiferous story.
Roald Dahl (Author)
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.
Quentin Blake (Illustrator)
Quentin Blake has illustrated more than three hundred books and was Roald Dahl's favourite illustrator. In 1980 he won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal. In 1999 he became the first ever Children's Laureate and in 2013 he was knighted for services to illustration.