This is followed by a series of activities aiming to develop children’s retrieval, explanation, inference, prediction and summarising skills. I could go on but I’ll just leave it at this: hunting is vastly more complex than simply seeing it as a sadistic activity for psychos. The 8-year-old girl comes by the Greggs' farm to see that the Gregg family (now changing their surname to Egg) have fully changed their ways and are now feeding and caring for the birds. The Magic Finger is narrated by an eight-year-old girl, growing up on a farm, in the English countryside, next door to the Gregg family, who have a passion for hunting.

The fact is that the local rangers cull lions to keep the human population safe as well as allow the remaining lions enough food to keep from preying on local children. It finishes by looking at the character of the girl and thinking about how she uses her magic finger for good - and the children think about what positive change they might make with a magic finger. In a rage, the girl puts the Magic Finger itself on the entire family; when they wake up the following morning they have shrunk to bird-size and developed "ducks' wings" in place of their arms and hands. They plan to sneak back into their house to steal a tin of biscuits, but every window is shut when they arrive.

Un mundo adulto egoísta y avasallador con todo lo que les rodea, ya sean niños, animales, naturaleza. The young eight year old narrator is so enraged with her neighbour's hunting habits, that she turns the whole of the Gregg family into birds by the use of her magic finger. The girl feels that things may have gotten a little out of hand but then hears a gun fired by another neighbouring hunting-mad family, the Coopers. It’s certainly thought-provoking and inspired an entire conversation with my family about eating meat and how we should be responsible and care for the animals we have. The girl is friends with her neighbors: the Greggs, who live on a farm, have two sons, Philip and William, and love hunting.

Hunters have been given a really bad rap this past hundred years or so in the West and that really needs to stop.After some flying, the Greggs notice four wild ducks “as big as men” with “great long arms, like men, instead of wings” going into their house (28). Pequeño cuentito de la mano de Dahl, donde nuevamente vemos sus mismos ingredientes: adultos malos, algún niño o niña que hace justicia y un grupo de animalitos que ayudan.

The four ducks then head back toward the lake where they live, before letting the Greggs leave their tree. They are generally peaceful creatures, but are pushed to violence after the Greggs kill members of their family. The sessions are best suited for children in years 2-3, although with minor adaptations it could feasibly be used with slightly younger and older year groups. Their mother tries to comfort them, saying, “I can mince it all up very fine and you won’t even know the difference.making my way through the words slowly, i often laughed out loud at the sheer ridiculousness, probably much like a child reading a new dahl tale for the first time. The reader will see some of the humour and silliness within this story, but also sense a serious side that Dahl wants to express, in this case the importance of respecting all that lives in the community, be it other humans, flora, or even fauna. The title "Magic Finger" is an ability she has that activates inadvertently whenever she gets angry: the finger itself shoots out a beam of electrical energy that apparently seeks out whoever has angered the girl, with unpredictable consequences.

She didn't mean to turn her magic finger on the family, but when the little girl is angry her Magic Finger takes over. While trying out their new wings, the Greggs fly out of their beloved house, which is promptly occupied by four human-sized ducks with human arms and human hands, and they are all soon forced to build a nest in an old tree for the night.What a hypocritical stance to take - hunting your own meat is wrong but eating meat killed by others Far Away is better? This story wasn't bad, but unfortunately the whole narrative of a girl hating on a bunch of hunters didn't quite agree with me, since I read this book right after Danny the Champion of the World which spent more than 200 pages to explain how cool poaching is. She doesn't like that they are hurting animals, so she tries to talk them out of it, but they only laugh at her.