Gangster Poems

Six beloved children's fairy tales - including Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Little Pigs, Jack and the Bean Tree, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - told by master storyteller Roald Dahl - from the point of view... of the main villain!

Did you think that Cinderella married the prince and they lived happily ever after? And you read it again. Sometimes it is useful to look at a famous story through the eyes of the Gray Wolf, for example.

The book of poems (yes, yes!) by Roald Dahl was first published in English in 1982, and only in 2019 it was published for the first time in Russian in a translation by the writer, poet, famous translator of English absurd poetry Evgeniy Klyuev.

Roald Dahl's witty, provocative "Gangster Poems" have already become a classic of children's reading in the UK (like the rest of Dahl's books); in 2016, their animated film adaptation was released on the BBC, and in 2017 this cartoon was even nominated for an Oscar.