Roald Dahl Collection 16 Books Box Set

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Radeska, Tijana (28 November 2018). "Getting to Know the Real Roald Dahl – An Imagination for the Ages". The Vintage News. Archived from the original on 22 March 2019 . Retrieved 22 March 2019.

BILBY Award Winners". Children's Book Council of Australia (Qld Branch) Inc. - BILBY AWARDS - Books I Love Best Yearly. Archived from the original on 9 February 2007 . Retrieved 25 September 2023. {{ cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link) Dahl, Harald". probatesearchservice.gov. UK Government. 1920. Archived from the original on 25 September 2021 . Retrieved 25 September 2021. Dahl, Roald (August 1983). "Not A Chivalrous Affair". Literary Review. Archived from the original on 28 February 2023 . Retrieved 17 February 2020. (subscription required) Dahl first attended The Cathedral School, Llandaff. At age eight, he and four of his friends were caned by the headmaster after putting a dead mouse in a jar of gobstoppers at the local sweet shop, [5] which was owned by a "mean and loathsome" old woman named Mrs Pratchett. [5] The five boys named their prank the " Great Mouse Plot of 1924". [30] Mrs Pratchett inspired Dahl's creation of the cruel headmistress Miss Trunchbull in Matilda, and a prank, this time in a water jug belonging to Trunchbull, would also appear in the book. [31] [32] Gobstoppers were a favourite sweet among British schoolboys between the two World Wars, and Dahl referred to them in his fictional Everlasting Gobstopper which was featured in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. [33] a b "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The Times. 5 January 2008. Archived from the original on 19 January 2014 . Retrieved 16 September 2014.Best Young-Adult Books". Time. Archived from the original on 2 July 2021 . Retrieved 29 October 2019. Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Danny the Champion of the World a b Bird, Elizabeth (7 July 2012). "Top 100 Chapter Book Poll Results". School Library Journal. Archived from the original on 13 July 2012. David Walliams up for Roald Dahl award". BBC News. 17 September 2010. Archived from the original on 31 January 2014 . Retrieved 16 September 2014. Applicability of cancellation rights: Legal rights of cancellation under the Distance Selling Regulations available for UK or EU consumers do not apply to certain products and services.

While his whimsical fantasy stories feature an underlying warm sentiment, they are often juxtaposed with grotesque, darkly comic and sometimes harshly violent scenarios. [10] [12] The Witches, George's Marvellous Medicine and Matilda are examples of this formula. The BFG follows, with the good giant (the BFG or "Big Friendly Giant") representing the "good adult" archetype and the other giants being the "bad adults". This formula is also somewhat evident in Dahl's film script for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Class-conscious themes also surface in works such as Fantastic Mr Fox and Danny, the Champion of the World where the unpleasant wealthy neighbours are outwitted. [76] [125] Peter Rabbit blazed a trail still well trod". The Times. Archived from the original on 6 October 2022 . Retrieved 6 October 2022.Roald Dahl plaque for 'Weston-super-Mud' ". BBC News. 21 March 2018. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021 . Retrieved 7 March 2019. The Witches is a 1983 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. A dark fantasy, the story is set partly in Norway and partly in England, and features the experiences of a young English boy and his Norwegian grandmother in a world where child-hating societies of witches secretly exist in every country. The witches are ruled by the vicious and powerful Grand High Witch, who arrives in England to organize her plan to turn all of the children there into mice. a b Dietsch, Deborah K. (1 December 2013). "Roald Dahl Slept Here: From attaché to author". The Washington Post Magazine. p.10. Archived from the original on 26 January 2014 . Retrieved 30 November 2013. Mother: Sofie Dahl {influence upon} Roald Dahl". Archived from the original on 5 December 2014 . Retrieved 16 September 2014. Gonzalez, Robbie (31 January 2015). "Read Roald Dahl's Powerful Pro-Vaccination Letter". Archived from the original on 4 May 2015 . Retrieved 1 February 2015.

In November 1962, Dahl's daughter Olivia died of measles encephalitis, age seven. Her death left Dahl "limp with despair", and feeling guilty about not having been able to do anything for her. [87] Dahl subsequently became a proponent of immunisation—writing " Measles: A Dangerous Illness" in 1988 in response to measles cases in the UK—and dedicated his 1982 book The BFG to his daughter. [88] [89] After Olivia's death and a meeting with a Church official, Dahl came to view Christianity as a sham. [90] In mourning he had sought spiritual guidance from Geoffrey Fisher, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, and was dismayed being told that, although Olivia was in Paradise, her beloved dog Rowley would never join her there. [90] Dahl recalled years later: In 2013, Kate Winslet, the English actress, spoke the English-language audiobook recording of Matilda. [21] [22] [23] In 2014, the American Library Association shortlisted her for an Odyssey Award for her audiobook performance. [24] Tales of the Unexpected (1979–88)". Archived from the original on 5 December 2014 . Retrieved 16 September 2014. A giant peach of a property in Dahl country". The Times. 14 July 2015. Archived from the original on 14 July 2015 . Retrieved 14 July 2015.Jemma Crew of the Newstatesman considers it an "unlikely source of inspiration for feminists". [16] The Times article "Not in Front of the Censors" suggests that the least interesting thing to a child about a witch is that they appear to look like a woman, and even offers the perspective that a witch might be a very feminist role model to a young school girl. [13] At the age of five and a half, Matilda enters school and befriends her polite and compassionate teacher Jennifer Honey, who is astonished by her intellectual abilities. Miss Honey tries to move Matilda into a higher class, but the tyrannical headmistress, Miss Agatha Trunchbull, refuses. Miss Honey also tries to talk to Mr and Mrs Wormwood about their daughter's intelligence, but they ignore her, with the mother contending "brainy-ness" is an undesirable trait in a little girl. Dahl was also influenced by Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The "Drink Me" episode in Alice inspired a scene in Dahl's George's Marvellous Medicine where a tyrannical grandmother drinks a potion and is blown up to the size of a farmhouse. [139] Finding too many distractions in his house, Dahl remembered the poet Dylan Thomas had found a peaceful shed to write in close to home. Dahl travelled to visit Thomas's hut in Carmarthenshire, Wales in the 1950s and, after taking a look inside, decided to make a replica of it to write in. [140] Appearing on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in October 1979, Dahl named Thomas "the greatest poet of our time", and as one of his eight chosen records selected Thomas's reading of his poem " Fern Hill". [141]