The BFG Award-winning by Roald Dahl (author)

Author/Illustrator

Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff, South Wales on September 13th 1916. His parents were Norwegian, and were called Harald and Sofie. He went to Repton school, in Derbyshire, and left school in 1933.

His first job was in Africa, with the Shell Oil Company.
In the second world war he fought as a fighter pilot, and was badly injured when his plane crashed. After the war he worked in America, and soon started writing stories.

His very first children’s book, written in 1943 was called The Gremlins. Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of the President of the USA liked it so much he was invited to the White House and became friends with the President, Franklin D Roosevelt.

He wrote a number of books and short stories for adults, many of which were televised as the hugely popular Tales of the Unexpected.

But it was as a children’s author that he found greatest fame and satisfaction, saying “I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers…Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.” Millions of fans around the world agreed and have chuckled and gasped at his amazing stories. His mesmerising stories, written in sizzling, sparkly language, will lead you into adventures you’ll never ever forget!

From 1945 until his death, he lived at Gipsy House, in Buckinghamshire, where he wrote his famous children’s books.
He died in hospital in Oxford, on November 23rd, 1990. His books have continued to be read and loved, and have been made into a number of hit films, including Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. You can even visit the Roald Dahl Museum in the village where Dahl lived for most of his life.

In 2009 the Roald Dahl Funny Prize was established in his memory.

Reviews

1. Jaime Jaramillo - Fernandez
   on 8 December 2012

   BFG

   One night a little girl named sophie woke up at the witches hour were mythical creaters pass by.In the witches hour a mysterious figer appered on her street he got his big trumpet out a special un seen posion and blew it in the twins house sophie had witnessed every thing yet she was speech less she had no idea what just happend. then the the shadow appered closer she was panic-striken she had never experenced such a horro,then the one she was about to experence.Suddenly the shadow got larger and larger and larger as the window was half open he grabed the girl with her blanket and went sprinting her heart was pulsating finaly she started to rise as well as the mythical object and reached to an end to a land of giants the giant that got her was the bfg aka the big friendly GIANT there were another nine but they were man eating giants.sophie had a difficult time trying to round them up and leaving them in a dich some how she achived it the Queen also kindly helped how kind of here when they were stuck in the dich there diet were iky yuky snozkumbers that was the bfg's old diet the other man eating giants got luky once as three men got drunk and fell in the dich.R.I.P drunk men. this was a nother outstanding story from rold dahl's sucsses.

   5 out of 5

2. Farah
   on 21 February 2011

   The BFG

   I think 'The BFG' is another amazing play of words by Mr Roald Dahl. He uses his mind to create fabulous books that you can not put down. This is definetly one of them.

   5 out of 5

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