Synopsis:
What happens when the hunter becomes the hunted?
To the Gregg family, hunting is just plain fun. To the girl who lives next door, it's just plain horrible. She tries to be polite. She tries to talk them out of it, but the Greggs only laugh at her. Then one day the Greggs go too far, and the little girl turns her Magic Finger on them. When she's very, very angry, the little girl's Magic Finger takes over. She really can’t control it, and now it's turned the Greggs into birds! Before they know it, the Greggs are living in a nest, and that's just the beginning of their problems….
To the Gregg family, hunting is just plain fun. To the girl who lives next door, it's just plain horrible. She tries to be polite. She tries to talk them out of it, but the Greggs only laugh at her. Then one day the Greggs go too far, and the little girl turns her Magic Finger on them. When she's very, very angry, the little girl's Magic Finger takes over. She really can’t control it, and now it's turned the Greggs into birds! Before they know it, the Greggs are living in a nest, and that's just the beginning of their problems….
*First published in 1966
Review:
Roald Dahl's books are classic and not to mention have so much creativity and imagination that is put into words and pages of fun. The Magic Finger is one that I had never heard of let alone read before now.
The main characters involve a girl and a whole family of hunters. Their names are Mr. Gregg, Mrs.Gregg, William, and Philip. Throughout the book the girl is just referred to as girl and she has a magic finger. The magic finger usually comes out when she is angry at someone; which would have come in handy a lot when I was younger! Anyways, one day she sees the Gregg family going down to the lake with some guns. Lo and behold they have guns because hey they like to shoot animals. From very early on I got the impression that this was a very anti-hunting book. The girl tries to get them to stop but they won't listen.
What happens next is completely hilarious! Our unnamed character sends her wrath on the the Greggs and the punishment that came along with it. The next part of the story consists of the Greggs trying to make due with their new "circumstances".
The Magic Finger is meant to teach children the difference between right and wrong and I just love that message. You can never go wrong with teaching children that. And honestly, I won't get into the whole hunting debate because let's face it, hunting can be completely necessary but does it necessarily make it right?
Tyler's review of the book is that it's good and he likes the birds :)
I recommend this to children of all ages. It's a quirky little book and you can never go wrong with Roald Dahl.
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Or if you don't want to buy the book, I can't stress to you enough to utilize your library! Not only do you get to read books for free, well that's it... you get to read books for free! And there are hundreds upon hundreds of books for you to choose from. You know what they say... Having fun isn't hard, when you got a library card. (Yeah, I know, I totally stole that from Arthur.)
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