To the Gregg family, hunting is just plain fun. To the girl who lives next door, it's just plain terrible. She tries to be polite. She tries to talk them out of it, but the Greggs go too far, and the little girl turns her Magic Finger on them. Annotation Angered by a neighboring family's sport hunting, an eight-year-old girl turns her magic finger on them.

革利鴿夫婦一家喜歡打獵，每個星期六的早晨，他們都會帶著各伯的槍，到樹林里去打走獸和小鳥。這可氣壞了鄰居的一位八歲小女孩。這個小女孩有一種與生俱來的非凡本領，每當她怒不可遏時，她的手指就能施出魔法來!這個魔法太有趣啦，它讓打獵者與被獵者徹底掉了個兒。達爾的奇思妙想讓人讀起來真是忍俊不禁。

Children's Literature - Dr. Judy Rowen Told in the first person by the unnamed female protagonist, this short tale introduces us to the Greggs, who love to hunt. That is, until our heroine uses her magic finger on them and they learn from a duck's perspective what it means to be hunted. Simple, gray-tone drawings in this new edition advance the fantasy.