'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. 1 The protagonist is a dyslexic vicar, and the book was written to benefit the Dyslexia Institute in London (now Dyslexia Action ), with Dahl and Blake. It was first published in 1991, after Dahl's death the previous year, by Century. Ages 8-up.Ĭopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. The Vicar of Nibbleswicke is a children's story written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. Of special interest is the illustrator's touching tribute at the end of the book, both to the late author's talent and to his 'passionate belief in the importance of reading,' which inspired this, his last book. Blake's daffy illustrations have long captured the outrageous humor of Dahl's text, and this collaboration proves no exception. The Vicar of Nibbleswicke Dahl, Roald Published byPenguin Publishing Group, 1992 ISBN 10: 0670843849ISBN 13: 9780670843848 Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A. Written for the benefit of the Dyslexia Institute in London, this slight book employs a host of jocular (though sometimes vulgar) malaprops to accentuate the beleaguered parson's condition.

In the fiendish hands of Roald Dahl, the parishioners must not only suffer the offense of praising Dog, but when the unsuspecting vicar attempts to compliment a group of little old ladies on the fact that each of them knits, his actual words incite chaos. Imagine what would happen if a nervous young parson were re-afflicted with a peculiar strain of his childhood dyslexia, so that he unknowingly pronounced backwards only the most significant word in every sentence.

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