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Several years ago I worked through the box set of Roald Dahl’s children’s books, and had the best time! Last week I was at a book sale where I found a copy of Revolting Rhymes, which I’d never read, and looked a lot of fun – turns out it was!

The book contains Dahl’s takes on Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Little Red Riding Hood, and the Three Little Pigs. But none of them are quite as you remember them, they have twists, generally much darker, that mean the stories all have different endings to normal, be it beheadings, guns, or becoming as rich as they like, it’s all in rhyme as you’d expect from the title, and a lot of fun!