Roald Dahl

The vicar's speech impediment leads to holy hysteria in an otherwise quiet country parish.

The Vicar of Nibbleswicke

Sarah Sammis

The Vicar of Nibbleswicke by Roald Dahl was written for Dyslexia Institute in London (now Dyslexia Action) and published the year after his death.

The book starts off on the wrong foot by a heavy handed mentioning of dyslexia and of the foundation. It continues downhill from there as the boy has grown up to become Parson Lee and is so scared by his first assignment that he's now speaking in a fictional "front-to-back" dyslexia. This of course is just a method for Dahl to include his usual potty humor at the expense of the Vicar.

For instance, the Vicar tells a young group of girls getting ready for their first communion that they should "pis a little" instead of "sip a little." Later he tells the congregation not to "krap on the road" when he means "park on the road." Oh... funny stuff.... not.

The only good thing about the book is that it is short. It's sixty eight pages long and for me a complete waste of time.

The Vicar of Nibbleswicke

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