Roald Dahl

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Switch Bitch (1974)Danny, the Champion of the World (1975)The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More (1977)The Enormous Crocodile (1978)My Uncle Oswald (1979)The Twits (1980)George's Marvellous Medicine (1981)Revolting Rhymes (1982)The BFG (1982)

1. Roald Dahl was born on the 13th of September and every year we celebrate his birthday on Roald Dahl Day.2. Roald Dahl worked on The Gremlins specifically for Walt Disney.3. He wrote all of his children's stories in a small hut at the bottom of his garden.4. He loved chocolate, but not chocolate cake or chocolate ice cream.5. He was a very bad child. The scene from Matilda where the headmistress forces a boy to eat an entire cake was inspired by his own life.

The Gremlins (1943)Over To You (1946)Some Time Never (1948)Someone Like You (1953)Kiss Kiss (1960)James and the Giant Peach (1961)Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)The Magic Finger (1966)Fantastic Mr Fox (1968)Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972)

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Dirty Beasts (1983)The Witches (1983)Roald Dahl’s Book of Ghost Stories (1983)Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984)The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me (1985)Two Fables (1985)Going Solo (1986)Matilda (1988)Rhyme Stew (1989)Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life (1989)Esio Trot (1990)The Vicar of Nibbleswicke (1991)The Minpins (1991)Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety (1991)My Year (1991)

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