DooYoo agree? (Roald Dahl in general)

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Product:	Roald Dahl in general
Date:	20/01/02 (29 review reads)
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Advantages: Him.

Disadvantages: Eh??

Roald Dahl was born in 1916 in Wales of Norwegian parents. He was educated in England before starting work for the Shell oil company in Africa. He began writing after a 'monumental bash on the head' sustained as a RAF fighter pilot during the Second World War. Roald Dahl is one of the most successful and well known of all children's writers. Children all over the world read his books.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

James and The Giant Peach
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
The Magic Finger
Charlie and The Great Glass Elevator
Fantastic Mr Fox
Matilda
The Twits
The Witches (Winner of the 1983 Whitbread Award)
The BFG
George's Marvellous Medicine
Boy: Tales of Childhood
Boy and Going Solo
Esio Trot
Danny the Champion of The World
Going Solo

PICTURE BOOKS

Dirty Beasts
The Enormous Crocodile
The Giraffe, The Pelican and Me
The Minpins
Revolting Rhymes

FOR OLDER READERS

The Great Automatic Grammatizator And Other Stories
Rhyme Stew
The Vicar of Nibblewick
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More

PLAYS

The BFG
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
Charlie and The Great Glass Elevator
Fantastic Mr Fox
James and The Giant Peach.

Throughout Roald Dahl’s time, this fine collection of books, and when I say 'fine collection' I do sincerely mean FINE COLLECTION. It has grown and grew into so many amazing things. Unfortunately, these books had to stop in the year 1990, when Roald Dahl unfortunately passed away at the age of seventy-four.

QUENTIN BLAKE HIS ILLUSTRATOR

Quentin Blake was born in the suburbs of London in 1932. He read English at Cambridge, and did a postgraduate certificate in education at London University. From 1949 he worked as a cartoonist for many magazines, most notably The Spectator and Punch. He moved into Children's book illustration where his
inimitable style has won him enormous acclaim. Alongside this he has pursued a teaching career: he was head of the illustration department at the Royal College of Art and is now visiting Professor. Quentin Blake was awarded the OBE in 1988.

Indeed, two very successful men. I find them both to be superior. I assume that you ALL agree with me. JK Rowling, you’re hardly anything compared to these great minds. Sorry.

***UPDATION***

From a view of my comment, I have to update this. Roald Dahl's books have been translated into over 20 different languages like JRR Tolkien. His books are most incredible and amazing. Everybody has to agree. His mind and imagination must have had to work overtime for him to think of all these amazing books. And yes, I did find the bibliography of one of Roald Dahl's books, because it would have been stupid to mention about 6 books instead of doing the whole thing!!!! My sister, Hayley, thrives on the books and I do as a matter of fact. He had to be one of the most famous authors of all time. His knowledge of writing must have been beyond anybody else’s. The theme of his books is really hard to say. You can't really place one particular theme to them. They are sort of combined with a mixture. When I am reading his books, they make me feel really comfortable so to speak. I really enjoy reading them. They are most suitable for all generations. As you can tell from the little subheadings I have put into the bibliography. The illustrations are fantabulous. I'm just speechless. He is not using too much detail, just basic drawings that everybody will find amusing.

(I've corrected all of the typos. Sorry.)

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