Roald Dahl British author". Encyclopædia Britannica. Archived from the original on 16 April 2019 . Retrieved 2 March 2022. I climbed up to their tree-house village and poked my head in through the door of the tree house belonging to the leader of the tribe” Earthworm, with his lovely pink skin, was employed by a company that made women’s face creams to speak commercials on the television

Dad also needed happy dreams': Roald Dahl, his daughters and the BFG". The Daily Telegraph. 6 August 2010. Archived from the original on 10 January 2022 . Retrieved 16 September 2014. The book has been adapted in various media, including an audio reading by actress Kate Winslet; a 1996 feature film Matilda directed by Danny DeVito; a two-part BBC Radio 4 programme; and a 2010–2011 musical Matilda the Musical which ran on the West End in London, Broadway in New York, and around the world. A film adaptation of the musical, Matilda the Musical, was released in 2022. The Smallest Fox drinks the cider) the Smallest Fox had sneaked a jar off the shelf and had taken a gulpOne of Miss Trunchbull's punishments is to force an overweight child, Bruce Bogtrotter, to eat an enormous chocolate cake, which makes him so full that he cannot move. The cook had caught him stealing a piece of cake from the kitchen. In Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes [39] one of the recipes is based on that cake. Bruce is a more sympathetic variation of Augustus Gloop (from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and similar gluttons, and he is praised for finishing the cake without suffering nausea. [40] The short story The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl, released in 1966, may have been a precursor to Matilda. A young girl has power within her finger to do things to other people when she gets emotional about a cause she feels strongly about.

are actually growing taller every week, but their mothers never notice it until they grow out of their clothes. Language evolves. Few would defend retaining the “n-word” in contemporary publishing, or any number of other outdated racial slurs which bring the modern reader up short and do not add to the text. But where does sensible pruning give way to unnecessary tinkering? medicine, George told himself. He found it fascinating to stand there watching what it was doing to the old hag. What next? In December 2009, BBC Radio 4's Classic Serial broadcast a two-part adaptation by Charlotte Jones of the novel with Lenny Henry as the Narrator, Lauren Mote as Matilda, Nichola McAuliffe as Miss Trunchbull, Emerald O'Hanrahan as Miss Honey, Claire Rushbrook as Mrs. Wormwood and John Biggins as Mr. Wormwood. [20] During his years at Repton, the Cadbury chocolate company occasionally sent boxes of new chocolates to the school to be tested by the pupils. [46] Dahl dreamt of inventing a new chocolate bar that would win the praise of Mr Cadbury himself; this inspired him in writing his third children's book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964), and to refer to chocolate in other children's books. [47]At the age of five and a half, Matilda enters school and befriends her polite and compassionate teacher Jennifer Honey, who is astonished by her intellectual abilities. Miss Honey tries to move Matilda into a higher class, but the tyrannical headmistress, Miss Agatha Trunchbull, refuses. Miss Honey also tries to talk to Mr and Mrs Wormwood about their daughter's intelligence, but they ignore her, with the mother contending "brainy-ness" is an undesirable trait in a little girl.

Throughout his childhood and adolescent years, Dahl spent most of his summer holidays with his mother's family in Norway. He wrote about many happy memories from those visits in Boy: Tales of Childhood, such as when he replaced the tobacco in his half-sister's fiancé's pipe with goat droppings. [48] He noted only one unhappy memory of his holidays in Norway: at around the age of eight, he had to have his adenoids removed by a doctor. [49] His childhood and first job selling kerosene in Midsomer Norton and surrounding villages in Somerset are subjects in Boy: Tales of Childhood. [50] After school flabby folds of fat bulged out from every part of his body, and his face was like a monstrous ball of dough Emma Thompson gives Matilda The Musical a deranged villain to remember". The Telegraph . Retrieved 22 November 2022.Gould, Gordon (5 September 1971). "His fables for children give 'Mr Patricia Neal' edge in Dahl house". The Los Angeles Times. p.12. Further information: Matilda the Musical, Matilda (1996 film), and Matilda the Musical (film) Matilda the Musical has been performed at the Cambridge Theatre in the West End since November 2011 Collin, Robbie (18 February 2021). " 'Sean Connery? He never stood anyone a round': Roald Dahl's love-hate relationship with Hollywood". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 10 January 2022 . Retrieved 28 February 2021.