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Dirty Beasts

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Information

• First editions:
  • Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983, USA.
    • Illustrated by Quentin Blake
  • Johnathan Cape Ltd., 1983, Great Britain.
    • Illustrated by Rosemary Fawcett
    • Value (circa 1989) in Fine condition
      • $12-$15 (no dustjacket)
• Contains:
  • "The Pig"
  • "The Crocodile"
  • "The Lion"
  • "The Scorpion"
  • "The Ant-Eater"
  • "The Porcupine"
  • "The Cow"
  • "The Toad and the Snail"
  • "The Tummy Beast"
• Movie:
  • Dirty Beasts
• Audio Book:
  • Dirty Beasts read by Pam Ferris and Geoffrey Palmer
  • Dirty Beasts read by Prunella Scales and Timothy West

Description

A picture book of nine comic verses featuring the most ghastly menagerie of Dirty Beasts you could ever hope (not) to meet! As well as Crocky-Wock the Crocodile, there's The Pig who hatches a plan to avoid being eaten by Farmer Bland and The Cow who flies into the sky and performs a loop-the-loop before depositing a cowpat from a great height. [from roalddahl.com]

Fun Stuff

• Illustrations by Rosemary Fawcett (1983)
• Excerpt – "The Crocodile"

Cover Illustrations

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Viking Press, 1986 [Buy this Book]

Random House, 1987 [Buy this Book]

Penguin, 2001 [Buy this Book]

Puffin, 2002 [Buy this Book]

Norwegian Cover Illustration – "Fæle Dyr"