“From then on, every afternoon, as soon as her mother had left for bingo, Matilda would toddle down to the library. Find yourself a mate like Charlie and you will be settled with a lifelong friendship. When his luck finally starts improving, he is given the chance to prove his honesty to the peculiar and genius chocolatier Willy Wonka. Generous, selfless, and kind-hearted, Charlie is a pillar of morality. So poor and so passionate about chocolate, Charlie can only look forward to one chocolate bar a year, for his birthday. The protagonist of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and The Great Glass Elevator is probably Dahl’s most heartwarming character. I want everybody to taste it.’ ” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory He smiled at them, a small sad smile, and then he shrugged his shoulders and picked up the chocolate bar and held it out to his mother, and said, 'Here, Mother, have a bit. Four kind old faces were watching him intently from the bed. Some good news for Roald Dahl fans, Netflix announced in January 2019 a major rights deal with the Roald Dahl Company, which could mean a ton of new films based on the Roald Dahl books! If you’re a real Roald Dahl fan, there’s a brilliant Roald Dahl Museum in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, where he lived for 30 years. Illustrator Quentin Blake has illustrated both Roald Dahl books and David Walliams books. His books have sold more than 200 million copies and been translated into 60 languages!ĭavid Walliams says Roald Dahl is his hero and is often compared to him. He delighted in shocking readers of all ages. From George, who concocts a tonic to cure his horrid Grandma in George’s Marvellous Medicine, to orphan James who escapes his vile aunties by squashing them with an enormous peach in James and the Giant Peach – the good children always triumph.Īside from children’s books, Roald Dahl also wrote two collections of grisly children’s poems – Revolting Rhymes and Dirty Beasts and was a prolific adult short story writer too. His tales often star child heroes fighting awful grown-ups. Having loved the magical Norwegian folk stories his mother used to tell him as a child, he invented bedtime stories for his own children and these grew into the tales we love today. When he was just three, his sister and father died within months of each other and many years later, his son Theo was injured in an accident and his daughter Olivia, died of measles, aged just 7. His dark, unsentimental stories are said to have been influenced by several tragedies during his lifetime. Born in Wales in 1916 to Norwegian parents, he was a mischievous child and was always in trouble at school. Roald Dahl is one of the world’s greatest children’s book authors.
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