Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40111 in Books
• Published on: 2001-04-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 80 pages

Synopsis
The giraffe with an infinitely expandable neck, the pelican with a magical retractable beak, and the dancing monkey are among Roald Dahl's most popular characters. Together with Billy, a small boy with a dream, they team up to make the most amazing ladderless window-cleaning company ever invented.

Customer Reviews

Good book
My auntie bought me this book and I liked the ending best of all and the beginning. I liked Fantastic Mr Fox better than this book but they are both great for younger readers. From Oscar, aged 7.

Fab
Plot: When Billy finds an old shop for sale he decides to buy it. He thinks of making it into a sweet shop but instead he turns it into a window cleaners' shop because in it lives three animals - one tall, one with a big beak and one who can swing very well. The strange thing is he doesn't have a bucket, a ladder and someone to help him clean; oh no, he has a giraffe, a pelican and a monkey! Billy has some wacky adventures with three amazing animal pals (and some perplexing problems too)...

Amazing fact: Roald Dahl had always dreamed of having his very own sweet shop - just like Billy in this story.

Rating and recommendation: 7/ 10; to all Roald Dahl fans.

There once was aboy called Billy...
There once was a boy called Billy. One day he decided to go and see the old building that used to be a sweetshop. When he arrived at the old building he noticed a sigh saying `sold'. Suddenly, an old bath, rocking horse, sink and an empty canary cage came flying out of one of the windows! Billy looked to see what was there. He saw a beautifully patterned giraffe sticking its head out of one of the windows! Suddenly, he noticed a pelican with a fascinating beak and a monkey as thin as a skeleton. Then suddenly the monkey pointed to the pelican and said she is called Pelly then the monkey pointed to the giraffe and said she is called Giraffe.
Suddenly Giraffe said to Pelly please may you carry that boy up to me. The Pelly flew up to the giraffe. They said their job was to clean windows. Then the phone rang. The person on the phone said that he needs 677 dirty windows to clean .They set off and they asked if Billy wanted to clean windows with them. When the got there they saw a man and another man fighting we picked some cherries there was a burglar. The burglar stole the wife's jewels because Billy picked the cherries he opened his own sweet shop. I liked this book because it was funny.
Emma