The Minpins

If you ever go looking for magic, you'll never find any. That's why Little Billy went into the forest of sins, even though he was told not to. And that's how he met the Gruncher, who chased him high into the branches of an ancient, giant tree. And here he met the Minpins and discovered that there is magic – if you just know where to look.

Bridging the worlds of traditional fairy tales and magical fantasy, Roald Dahl again proves himself the master of children's literature. In The Minpins he has created a world to spark the imagination, a world filled with the terryfying creatures of nightmares and with the fanciful beings of dreams, the Minpins, a rice of maychstick-sized people in lofty tree cities – all captured in the magnificent and mysterious paintings of award-winning illustrator patrick benson.