The story is told in the first-person perspective from an unnamed protagonist living in the English countryside. He was also the author of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG and many more brilliant stories. Every member of the Gregg family is now part duck, with wings instead of hands, and bodies about the size of other birds.

Written in 1964 Roald Dahl's 'The Magic Finger' is a lesson well taught through a little girls magical finger. These whole class reading sessions aim to develop children’s comprehension of several extracts from Roald Dahl texts. She tries to talk the Greggs out of it, but either they laugh at her, or they ignore her completely. The story is a classic but no less wonderful tale of the value of life and how humans often think animals less.Dahl wrote more than 60 short stories and they have appeared in numerous collections, some only being published in book form after his death. The Greggs wake up the following morning and discover that several of the ducks have taken their guns and are threatening to shoot them. They are generally peaceful creatures, but are pushed to violence after the Greggs kill members of their family.

Dahl went on to create some of the best-loved children's stories of the 20th century, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda and James and the Giant Peach. this one does not even warrant mention in anyone's naming of Roald Dahl's works off the top of their head. It also contains a vocabulary check immediately after the extract is read to clarify any unfamiliar/ difficult language. A girl - who’s such a non-character she doesn’t even have a name; if she did it’d be “Plot Contrivance”!but i wish there were more new dahl stories for me to devour, because reading this one en español brought a childlike joy to my experience of the story.

As usual, I have the edition with Quentin Blakes wonderful black-and-white illustrations that not only capture the spirit of the story but also its fine, schadenfreude-laden humour. she has the gift of a magic finger that can stir things up, and she despises hunting, and her neighbors are duck hunters.Gregg begs the ducks not to kill her, her husband or their children, right before one of the ducks speaks to them, revealing that her own children were killed by the Greggs on their last hunting trip.