Summary

Published in 1943 and long unavailable, this landmark book is digitally restored.

Published in 1943 and long unavailable, this landmark book is digitally restored. This remarkable presentation of Roald Dahl's classic story is lavishly illustrated by the artists of the Walt Disney Studios.The story of The Gremlins concerns the mischievous mythical creatures of the title, often invoked by Royal Air Force pilots as an explanation of mechanical troubles and mishaps. In Dahl's book, the gremlins' motivation for sabotaging British aircraft is revenge of the destruction of their forest home, which was razed to make way for an aircraft factory. The principal character in the book, Gus, has his Hawker Hurricane fighter destroyed over the English Channel by a gremlin, but is able to convince the gremlins as they parachute into the water that they should join forces against a common enemy, Hitler and the Nazis, rather than fight each other.With full-page color illustrations and with several black-and-white illustrations by the Disney artists throughout.This was Roald Dahl's first book and preceded the British publication by several months.