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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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"Fantastic Mr. Fox" is a magical mixing of two distinctly ingenius sensibilities. Marry the dark "scare the little darlings" playfulness of children's novelist Roald Dahl to the quirky, comic warmth of filmmaker Wes Anderson, assign it to ever-so-patient British masters of stop-motion animation and what you get is a movie of whimsy, wit, warmth and wackiness, a Dahl parable ("Charlie and the Chocolate Factory") brought to animated life. The...
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Earlier today I participated in a roundtable interview with Ronald Dahl’s daughter, Lucy Dahl, for the movie “Fantastic Mr. Fox”. Since so many of Dahl’s books have not been made into movies, we asked his daughter if she’s heard about any progress in bringing them to life. The main thing she told us was…many people [...]
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Kingwood NewsSomerset High School presents 'Willy Wonka'New Richmond NewsCome and see a world of pure imagination in “Willy Wonka,” a full-length musical adaptation of Roald Dahl's “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. ...Willy Wonka Opens At The Nathaniel CenterKingwood NowRoald Dahl: 5 Things You Didn't KnowAskMenWilly Wonka visits schoolWeston & Somerset MercuryPW-Philadelphia Weeklyall 6 news articles »
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From October 1972 to October 1973 a controversy over Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory simmered in the pages of The Horn Book. It began with an article, "McLuhan, Youth, and Literature", by Eleanor Cameron, author of the Mushroom Planet series for children and of The Green and Burning Tree: On the Writing and Enjoyment of Children's Books. Spread out over the October, December, and February issues, it tied the ideas of Marshall...
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Den Of GeekRevisiting Tim Burton's Charlie And The Chocolate FactoryDen Of GeekOur look back at the work of TIm Burton arrives at his take on Roald Dahl's Charlie And The Chocolate Factory... "Everything in this room is eatable, ...Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory Blu-ray reviewDen Of Geekall 2 news articles »
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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)
