by Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl is well known for a relatively small segment of his writings. Among the remaining works are a large number of short stories and a dozen or so other children's books. I've been slogging through the lesser known children's material as a part of some sort of completionist quest to conquer the Dahl-ian oeuvre. Some of these are better than others.
The Vicar of Nibbleswicke is really less a book, even in the world of children's lit, and more a short story. The Vicar is a well-meaning god-fearing Anglican who has an unfortunate tendency to verbally and spontaneously say works backwards. So if he meant to say, "please park on the lawn," it might come out, "please krap on the lawn." It's actually a pretty nifty concept for a kid's book but it has nothing to do with dyslexia as the doctor in the book asserts.
It's very short and doesn't stand out in any direction. Very few things in this world inspire me to apathy. This is one that does.
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