Saturday, September 13, 2014
Happy Birthday Roald Dahl!
(September 13, 1916- November 23, 1990)
1. He was born on 13 September 1916, in Llandaff, Cardiff. His parents were Norwegian
2. He loved chocolate, but not chocolate cake or chocolate ice cream
3. He did not start writing for children until he had children of his own
4. Dahl’s first book for children was The Gremlins, published in 1943
5. His teachers didn’t think he was very good at writing when he was at school, but Roald Dahl excelled at sport.
6. In 1939, Roald Dahl became a lieutenant in the King’s African Rifles (an East African regiment of the British Army). Later that year, he joined the Royal Air Force as a fighter pilot.
7. He often carried a camera with him and he loved taking photographs
8. Roald Dahl wrote seventeen children’s stories, and he also produced many works for adults, as well as children’s poetry and film scripts
9. The first draft of the Magic Finger was titled The Almost Ducks, and James and the Giant Peach was going to be called James and the Giant Cherry
10. He was friends with the American writer, Ernest Hemingway
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl
A list of Roal Dahl's Works:
Children's Fiction
- The Gremlins
- James and the Giant Peach
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- The Magic Finger
- Fantastic Mr Fox
- Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
- Danny, the Champion of the World
- The Enormous Crocodile
- The Twits
- George’s Marvellous Medicine
- The BFG
- The Witches
- The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
- Matilda
- Esio Trot
- The Vicar of Nibbleswicke
- The Minpins (published in 1991, after Roald Dahl's Death)
Children's Poetry
- Revolting Rhymes
- Dirty Beasts
- Rhyme Stew
Novel's for Adults
- Sometime Never: A Fable for Supermen
- My Uncle Oswald
Short Stories
- Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying
- Someone Like You
- Lamb to the Slaughter
- Kiss Kiss
- Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl
- Switch Bitch
- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More
- The Best of Roald Dahl
- Tales of the Unexpected
- More Tales of the Unexpected
- Roald Dahl’s Book of Ghost Stories
- The Roald Dahl Omnibus
- Two Fables
- Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl
- The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl
- The Roald Dahl Treasury
- The Great Automatic Grammatizator
- Skin and Other Stories
- Roald Dahl Collected Stories
- Non-Fiction by Roald Dahl
- The Mildenhall Treasure
- Boy: Tales of Childhood
- Going Solo
- Measles, a Dangerous Illness
- Memories with Food at Gipsy House
- Roald Dahl’s Guide to Railway Safety
- My Year
