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Revolting Rhymes

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195:, the plot stayed true to the original tale until one of the ugly sisters switches her shoe with the one Cinderella left behind at the ball. However, when the prince sees that the shoe fits one of the sisters, he decides not to marry her, and instead chops off her head on the spot while she is standing. When the prince removes the head of the second sister and makes to do the same to Cindy, she wishes to be married instead to a decent man. Her fairy godmother grants this wish and marries her to a simple, regular 208:, the beanstalk grows golden leaves towards the top. Jack's mother sends him up to fetch them, but when Jack hears the giant threaten to eat him after the giant smells him, he descends without collecting any of the gold. Jack's mother then ascends herself after accusing Jack of being smelly, but is eaten. Undeterred, Jack decides to bathe, and then climbs up and collects the leaves himself, as the giant is now unable to smell him since he is clean. Now rich, Jack resolves to bathe every day. 304:; West narrated "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves", "Jack and the Beanstalk", "The Three Little Pigs" and "Cinderella", while Scales narrated "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Goldilocks and the Three Bears". This version shifted the order in which the stories were told, with "Cinderella" being told last instead of first, "Jack and the Beanstalk" being told after "Snow White" and "Goldilocks" being told after "The Three Little Pigs". A later version was narrated by Scottish actor 493: 457: 229:
has a slightly different set-up to the rest of the poems, in that the story is kept the same as the traditional tale, but with continual comments from the narrator about how appalling Goldilocks is and how anyone with any sense would take the bears' side over hers (with the narrator telling the story
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agrees not to kill Snow White, she takes a job as a cook and maid for seven former jockeys (the dwarfs). Although those jockeys are compulsive gamblers on horse racing, they are not particularly successful. So Snow White resolves to help them, and sneaks back to steal the magic mirror, which can
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in the 1990s as part of their Tempo Video range, featuring all 6 tales told using Scales and West's audio book recordings against animations rendered in the style of Quentin Blake's illustrations. Re-releases from 1996 (by PolyGram, later Universal) had their narrations re-dubbed by
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correctly predict the winning horse and makes the seven jockeys (and Snow White) millionaires, with the moral that "Gambling is not a sin / Provided that you always win".
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as if talking to the Mother Bear). After the end, the narrator says that they would prefer an ending where the three bears come back and eat Goldilocks.
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and sticks, devouring the first two pigs. The third house of bricks is too strong, so the wolf resolves to come back that evening with
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There are a total of six poems in the book, each of the featured fairy tales humorously deviating from the traditional version.
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out of her underwear and shoots the wolf ("The small girl smiles/Her eyelid flickers/She whips a pistol from her
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The poem "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf" was adapted into the 1996 television film
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Once upon a time, there was a man who liked to make up stories ...
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in verse, where Dahl gives a re-interpretation of six well-known
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Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl
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Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
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Roald Dahl
Quentin Blake
Fairy tales
Children's poetry
Jonathan Cape
ISBN
978-0-8479-8713-9
poetry collection
Roald Dahl
parody
folk tales
fairy tales
Cinderella
jam-maker
Jack and the Beanstalk
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
huntsman
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Little Red Riding Hood
pistol
knickers
The Three Little Pigs
straw
dynamite
sharpshooter
wolfskin
pigskin
audio book
Timothy West

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