This article in The New Yorker, describes Roald Dahl in depth, and takes you into his world of exciting and bizarre children's stories. Included below is a small excerpt from this terrific critique of Dahle and his writing.
Roald Dahl, the British author of children’s books, wrote in a tiny cottage at the end of a trellised pathway canopied with twisting linden trees. He called it the “writing hut,” and, since Dahl was nearly six feet six, he must have inhabited it like a giant in an elf’s house. Dahl died in 1990, at the age of seventy-four, but one day a year his widow, Felicity, invites children to the estate where he lived, in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, and local families swarm in like guests at Willy
Wonka’s Chocolate Factory.
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Holy Cow i didn't think anyone knew about Roald Dahl except for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! I love Roald Dahl, in fact his books were all i read from about first grade to fifth grade. I don't know many grade schoolers these days that know of Roald Dahl, but I hope all of his books are in every classroom across the country.
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