On publishing Roald Dahl -- About my father -- The hut ; PART ONE - Animals : Be nice to frogs -- The twits -- The enormous crocodile -- The enormous crocodile (from Revolting Recipes) -- The pig (from Dirty Beasts) -- Letter from America -- Letters from abroad -- The owl and the the pussy-cat -- Fantastic Mr. Fox (an extract) -- Creating characters -- the giraffe and the pelly and me -- The boy who talked with anmimals (from the Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar) -- Stealing a magpie (from My Year) -- Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf (from Revolting Rhymes) -- The three little pigs (from Revolting Rhymes) -- Moles (from My Year) -- The lion (from Dirty Beasts) -- Roald Dahl, author (from a Puffin Passport)-- Tortoises -- Esio Trot -- The tortoise-cather (from Esio Trot) -- Hickety, pickety -- The crocodile ((from Dirty Beasts) ; PART TWO - Magic : Those who don't believe in magic -- Will never find it -- The BFG -- The BFG stamp -- Snozzcumbers -- the Minpins -- Cinderella -- James and the giant peach -- Jack and the beanstalk -- The witches -- The cow -- Cadbury's Dairy Milk (from My Year) -- Charlie and the chocolate factory (an extract) -- The Veruca Salt song (from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) -- Treats (from Revolting Recipes) -- George's marvellous medicine (an extract) ; PART THREE - Family, Friends and Foes : Winkles for tea -- The sweet-shop (from Boy) -- A little nut-tree (from Rhyme Stew) -- Matilda's father (from Matilda) -- Danny's father (from Danny, The Champion of the World) -- Roald Dahl's father (from Boy) -- Letter from Roald Dahl to his sister, Alfhild -- the headmaster (from Boy) -- The Roald Dahl guide to railway safety (an extract) -- Matilda (an extract) -- When we acquired the motor-boat (from Boy) -- A Dahl invention (from My Year) -- A poem in reply to schoolchildren -- Danny, the Champion of the World (an extract) -- Hansel and Gretel (from Rhyme Stew) -- Conkers! (from My Year) -- Letter from Roald Dahl to his mother -- A drive in the motor-car (from Boy) -- When you grow up ; PART FOUR - Matters of Importance: The biggest hip bone ever -- Lucky break (from The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar) -- Photography (from Boy) -- Motorbikes (from My Year) -- The Twits (an extract) -- The emperor's new clothes (from Rhyme Stew) -- Wild mushrooms (from My Year) -- Simba (from Going Solo) -- Ideas to help aspiring writers -- The Green Mamba (from Going Solo) -- Where art thou, Mother Christmas? -- Hot and Cold and the price of debauchery (from Rhyme Stew) -- Dar es salaam to Nairobi by Ford Prefect (from Going Solo) -- Letter from Roald Dahl to his mother -- Survival (from Going Solo) -- First encounter with a bandit (from Going Solo) -- Roald Dahl talking -- As I grow old.