messages.CHILDREN'S_LITERATURE_GENRE books set in United Kingdom (12)
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1.
Der König von Narnia by C. S. Lewis DE
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Sie öffnen eine Tür und finden eine Welt voller Magie NARNIA... gefangen im ewigen Winter... ein Land, das darauf wartet, befreit zu werden. Durch einen Kleiderschrank gelangen Lucy, Edmund, Susan und Peter nach Narnia, das unter der Schreckensherrschaft der Weißen Hexen steht. Als alle Hoffnung verloren scheint, bringt die Rückkehr des mächtigen Löwen Aslan die Wende...
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The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Have you ever been angry with someone? I don't suppose you ever turned them into something! When the girl in this story gets really angry, she zaps people with her magic finger, with alarming results. Her teacher grows whiskers and a tail, and you won't believe what happens to the Greggs...they'll never be able to look at a duck in the same way again.
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Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Mr Hoppy, a retired bachelor, harbours a secret passion for the attractive widow Mrs Silver. Unfortunately she lavishes all her affection on another . . . Alfie, her pet tortoise. Mr Hoppy's wildly ingenious plot to defeat his rival and win the love of his lady will delight and amaze, involving as it does a cryptic riddle and no fewer than 140 tortoises, large and small.
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George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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George's Grandma is a grizzly, grumpy, selfish old woman with pale brown teeth and a small puckered up mouth like a dog's bottom. Four times a day she takes a large spoonful of medicine, but it doesn't seem to do her any good. She's always just as poisonous after she's taken it as she was before. When George is left to look after her one morning, it's just the chance he needs . . .
5.
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
A young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of adventures with six giant insects he meets inside a giant peach.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.
7.
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Michael was looking forward to moving into a new house. But now his baby sister is ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then he steps into the crumbling garage and encounters a strange being who changes his world forever.
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Boy : Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
'Throughout my young days at school and just afterwards, a number of things happened to me that I have never forgotten.' Many remarkable things did happen to Roald Dahl when he was a boy, no doubt providing some of the marvellous ideas for his later books. And, like his stories, Dahl's childhood tales are unmissable.
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Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.
10.
Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen by J. K. Rowling DE
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Eigentlich hatte Harry geglaubt, er sei ein ganz normaler Junge. Zumindest bis zu seinem elften Geburtstag. Da erfährt er, dass er sich an der Schule für Hexerei und Zauberei einfinden soll. Und warum? Weil Harry ein Zauberer ist. Und so wird für Harry das erste Jahr in der Schule das spannendste, aufregendste und lustigste in seinem Leben. Er stürzt von einem Abenteuer in die nächste ungeheuerliche Geschichte, muss gegen Bestien, Mitschüler und Fabelwesen kämpfen. Da ist es gut, dass er schon Freunde gefunden hat, die ihm im Kampf gegen die dunklen Mächte zur Seite stehen."
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Harry Potter und die Kammer des Schreckens by J.K. Rowling DE
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Auf der Hogwarts-Schule für Zauberei erleben Harry und seine Freunde viel Aufregendes mit einem Monster, das dort sein Unwesen treibt.
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Harry Potter und der Gefangene von Askaban by J. K. Rowling DE
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
3. Band: Der Welterfolg geht weiter! Diesmal läuft in den Ferien schon alles so schief, dass Harry befürchten muss, aus Hogwarts rauszufliegen. Gemeinsam mit seinen Freunden Ron und Hermine versucht er, ein Geflecht aus Verrat, Rache, Verleumdung und Feigheit aufzudröseln, und stösst dabei auf schier unglaubliche Dinge, die ihn fast an seinem Verstand zweifeln lassen.