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more about #booksforgirls more comments → Snowbunny: I feel like I should reread that book, I seem to have missed out on major themes from when I was a child. more » saintestella: this entry made me cry. i love henry sugar that much. to know there was a possibility of escaping the world with a turtle...Roald Dahl was a very la... more » laughingacademy: I adored "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" when I read it as a 10-year-old. My favorite moment was the morning after he’d broken the bank at his ... more » Hana Maru: I wish I hadn't read this, or his other adult stories as a child. Things like The Swan, and a story in another book about the guy murdered for his sk... more » squirrelcop: Do any of these stories involve a boy, at some point in the story, collecting discarded cigarette butts from the side of the road to create a giant ci... more » happysquid: Suggestion suggestion for next FINE LINES: can we look at Eva Ibbotson? I sort of think of her as the mirror image of Roald Dahl - her books are magic... more » stacyinbean: I went through a major Roald Dahl phase in 4th or 5th grade and convinced my parents to buy me all of his books. I'll admit this one and Switch Bitch ... more » dianersb was bit by a zombie: I loved Roald Dahl as a kid, and yet somehow I missed this one. *scampers off to check it out from the library* more » -
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More: Bully for You
The 1945 Roald Dahl short-story classic involving but not limited to a turtle, a yogi, and a terrible swan song.
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