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Roald Dahl
Here you'll find the wikizine for Roald Dahl whose influence on the childhood fantasies of Gen-Xers makes him almost the Gen-X Dr. Seuss. Except Dahl is more grim, like the Brothers Grimm – and his stories are full of bonecrunching and... [more]
Here you'll find the wikizine for Roald Dahl whose influence on the childhood fantasies of Gen-Xers makes him almost the Gen-X Dr. Seuss. Except Dahl is more grim, like the Brothers Grimm – and his stories are full of bonecrunching and child-eating and disposing of bad children down garbage chutes. Among his 19 children's books are The BFG, which became an animated film and has recently been produced as a play, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which, in addition to a play version, was adapted for two films -- the 1971 version starring Gene Wilder as the eccentric factory owner Willy Wonka and the 2005 version with Johnny Depp playing the role.
Born in Wales in 1916, Dahl loved to play with the sounds of language like his fellow countryman Dylan Thomas. Where Thomas created poetry, Dahl used his quirky ear to create vocabulary, words like gobstoppers, fleshlumpeaters and oompa-loompas.
As a WWII pilot, Dahl had his adventures and had probably seen the underbelly of the civilized world, as his books suggest. If you're looking for some kid reading, hold the syrup, then creative and funny Dahl might be right for your library.
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In a new interview with Time Out Chicago, former Pulp leader Jarvis Cocker claims he’s written “three, four songs, and some that might become bits of the score” for Wes Anderson’s upcoming stop-motion animated adaptation of Roald Dahl’s, “The Fantastic Mr. Fox“. This film has been in production for quite some time and now with the above announcement, hopefully a childhood favorite story of mine will eventually see the light of the movie screen...
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When she is not modeling, she writes. Playing With The Grown-ups is the first novel from the granddaughter of Roald Dahl. I have just started it so I will let you know what I think of it when I finish! “Captivating…Playing with the Grown-ups is rooted in biographical seeds but grown over by lush imaginative sentences that wear their seriousness lightly, in the manner of Nancy Mitford and Esther Freud…. Dahl’s profound empathy resonates most poignantly in Kitty’s relationship with her...
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The Disney Vault is an odd type of imaginary place. It periodically vomits up such Disney classics as Cinderella III, Kronk’s New Groove, and Leroy & Stitch (which sounds like the Chinese factory made knock off of Lilo & Stitch that you’d buy on a street corner). Yet, it slams its imaginary iron door on a Roald Dahl book for sixty years. (more…)
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Eleanor Alberga is a composer and pianist of African descent who was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1949. Her early musical activities are recounted in a biographical essay at her Web site http://www.EleanorAlberga.com/ She is profiled at AfriClassical.com Orchestra Music 101 is a resource for people looking for orchestral scores and parts. On Wednesday, February 6, 2008 it posted one of Alberga's compositions in the category: “Orchestral Music for Children's Audiences” “Eleanor Alberga...
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Legit Reviews: While its frequent use of puppetry provides moments of pure imagination, this Chicago Shakespeare production of "Willy Wonka" -- a family-targeted musical version of Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" -- otherwise feels mostly like a practical affair, making it a...
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In a program note for his production of "Willy Wonka," the 65-minute family musical by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley that opened over the weekend at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, director Joe Leonardo notes that Roald Dahl was not particularly happy with the first film version of his...
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Roald Dahl's "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" from 1971 stars Jack Albertson as grandpa, Peter Ostrum as Charlie and Gene Wilder as Wonka. ...
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Children's Stories
* The Gremlins (1943)
* James and the Giant Peach (1961) — Film: James and the Giant Peach (live-action/animated) (1996)
* Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) — Films: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
* The Magic Finger (1966)
* Fantastic Mr Fox (1970) — Film: Fantastic Mr. Fox (animated) (2008)
* Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1973) A sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
* Danny the Champion of the World (1975) — Film: Danny the Champion of the World (TV movie) (1989)
* Going Solo (1986)
* The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More (1977)
* The Enormous Crocodile (1978)
* The Twits (1980)
* George's Marvelous Medicine (1981)
* The BFG (1982) — Film: The BFG (animated) (1989)
* The Witches (1983) — Film: The Witches (1990)
* The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me (1985)
* Matilda (1988) — Film: Matilda (1996)
* Esio Trot (1989)
* The Minpins (1991)
* The Vicar of Nibbleswicke (1991)
Children's Poetry
* Revolting Rhymes (1982)
* Dirty Beasts (1983)
* Rhyme Stew (1989)
Novels
* Sometime Never: A Fable for Supermen (1948)
* My Uncle Oswald (1979)
Short Story Collections
* Over To You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying (1946)
* Someone Like You (1953)
* Kiss Kiss (1960)
* Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl (1969)
* Tales of the Unexpected (1979)
* Switch Bitch (1974)
* More Tales of the Unexpected (1980)
* The Best of Roald Dahl (1978)
* Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories (1983). Edited with an introduction by Dahl.
* Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl (1989)
* The Collected Short Stories of Dahl (1991)
* Two Fables (1986). "Princess and the Poacher" and "Princess Mammalia".
* The Great Automatic Grammatizator (1997). (Known in the USA as The Umbrella Man and Other Stories).
* The Mildenhall Treasure (2000)
* Roald Dahl: Collected Stories (2006)
Non-fiction
* Boy – Tales of Childhood (1984) Recollections up to the age of 16, looking particularly at schooling in Britain in the early part of the 20th century.
* Going Solo (1986) Continuation of his autobiography
* Measles, a Dangerous Illness (1986)
* Memories with Food at Gipsy House (1991)
* Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety (1991)
* My Year (1993)
* The Roald Dahl Ominibus (1993)
Plays
* The Honeys (1955.) Produced at the Longacre Theater on Broadway.
Film Scripts
* 36 Hours (1965)
* You Only Live Twice (1967)
* Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
* The Night Digger (1971)
* Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
