My favourite Roald ... pen-and-ink illustrations now, it’s kind of hard to see what I found so captivating, but I truly thought she was the most beautiful woman in the world. Dahl created ...
Roald Dahl is one of our absolute favourite authors; from The BFG, to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, to Matilda, he brought us a plethora of bold and brilliant literary heroes during his ...
Best-selling children’s author and Second World War fighter pilot Roald Dahl is the latest historical figure to be put in the dock of public opinion and held to account for historical racial slurs.
Youngsters discovered the world of the BFG, Twits and Witches as they celebrated Roald Dahl Day. Professional storyteller ...
Perhaps, in the squeamish spirit of the times, the Royal Court Theatre in London should have put on two versions of “Giant”, a blistering new play about Roald Dahl—one that quoted his ...
PATRICK MARMION: Best-selling children's author and Second World War fighter pilot Roald Dahl is the latest historical figure to be put in the dock of public opinion and held to account for ...
In the August 1983 issue of Literary Review, a British journal, the beloved children’s author Roald Dahl reviewed an eyewitness account of Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon. In a strident ...
The Parry Sound Public Library in Ontario, Canada, welcomed Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “The BFG,” and “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator” back to its ...
By Tanya Gold The name Giant is a joke. The playwright Mark Rosenblatt’s Roald Dahl is not a moral giant – though Dahl was 6’6” – but a lonely one. He does not fit in this world. “I don’t fit in ...
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What Is Roald Dahl Day? (& How To Celebrate)
Many schools host literary dress up challenges on World Book Day – so why not extend the fun to Roald Dahl Day. Ideas include ...
Roald Dahl was a cankered giant of children’s literature, casting a dark shadow over the pastel-tinted landscapes of a usually benign genre. Famously, he didn’t play nicely. But even so ...
1 (UPI) --An Ontario library said a patron who recently returned a trio of Roald ... Dahl books to the facility: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator and The BFG.