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Children of all ages have read and enjoyed books by

Roald Dahl. Many of his stories such as Charlie and the

Chocololate Factory and James and the Giant Peach,

have become classic in their own time

Roald father, Harald Dahl, immigrated to England from Norway

around the turn of the century (1900). Not long after the death of

his first wife, he took a trip back to Norway in hopes of finding a

wife to help him raise his young son and daughter. He married

Sofie Magdalene Hesselberg in 1911 and the couple moved to

Dahl's home in Llandaff, Wales. Over the next six years they had

five children: Astri, Alfhild, Roald, Else, Asta. Roald was born on

September 13, 1916 in Llandaff.

When Roald was seven Sofie decided it

was time for him to go to a proper boy‘s

school, so she left him to nearby Llandaff

Cathedral School. The violent incident

was what prompted Sofie to withdraw

Roald from the Llandaff school and finally

send him off to an English boarding

school: St. Peter's. St. Peter's

Preparatory School in Weston–super–

Mare was founded in 1900 and is

described at length by Dahl in his book

Boy (published in 1984).

1933 – Dahl at Repton Public School, aged seventeen. Though he seems

happy, in Boy – Tales of Childhood he writes about beatings and abuse from

both the headmasters and the house prefects as well. He was not an

exceptional student, but he did enjoy success on some of Repton's athletic

teams.

Schoolmates remembered him as a tall, soft–faced boy,

not especially popular but very close to the few boys who

became his friends. He was good at sports like cricket and

swimming, but academically he was toward the bottom of his

class. One of his main hobbies was reading, and some of

his favorite novelists were the adventure writers Rudyard

Kipling, Captain Marryat, H. Rider Haggarrd, and G.A.

Henry.

Raptons schoolchildren sometimes got a present from the great

chocolate manufacturers, Cadbury" Inside were twelve new chocolate

bar inventions that the boys were asked to sample and critique.

Dahl and

his schoolmates took this very seriously, and Roald used to dream of

working in a chocolate company's inventing room

.

After completing his education at

Repton, Dahl decided that he wanted a

career that would take him to "wonderful

faraway places like Africa or China“

1939 – From inside the cover of Going

Solo, this is a shot of Dahl at the

beginning of his RAF career. He learned

to fly Tiger Moths (small biplanes) over

the African desert. Though originally

there were 16 young men training

together, Dahl later confirmed that only

two (other than himself) managed to

survive the War.

1941 – This photograph was taken a few

months before Dahl's 25th birthday. At the

time, he was rejoining his squadron after

having crashed in Libya a year earlier. That

incident, recounted in Going Solo and Dahl's

first story "Shot Down Over Libya", resulted in

his later discharge from the RAF due to head

injuries. He was flying an unfamiliar airplane (a

Gladiator) and was supposed to join 80

Squadron in the Western Desert. Unfortunately

the co–ordinates he was given were incorrect,

and he suddenly found himself losing both

daylight and fuel in the middle of nowhere.

Dahl was not fated to remain with them for

long though, and when he began to get

blinding headaches (from his earlier accident)

he was invalided back home to Britain. His

career in the RAF was over.

Dahl's mother Sophie's cottage in Grendon Underwood, Buckinghamshire,

England. During WWII Sophie and her daughters moved here to escape

the German bombings in London and eastern England.

When Roald returned home from duty in the Royal Air Force in 1941

he at first had no idea where to find his family. Their eventual reunion is

described by Dahl on the last page of his autobiography Going Solo.

1953 – Dahl married

actress Patricia Neal, whom

he had first met at a party in

1951. She was a promising

Warner Bros. star who had

recently ended a much–

publicized affair with Gary

Cooper. Neal and Dahl

eventually divorced after

thirty years together in

1983. They had five

children together.

Dahl quickly remarried Felicity Dahl, with whom he had fallen in love

and carried on an affair for some time. Thus the last years of his life

were happy and productive, and some of his best books were written

during this period: The BFG, The Witches, and Matilda.

Roald Dahl died on November 23, 1990 in Oxford, England. He was

buried in Great Missenden.

Children‘s books

Dahl‘s collection

Movies

Get more at matildathemusical

The official Roald Dahl Day takes place every year on 13

September, on the birthday of the World's No. 1

Storyteller. This year's Roald Dahl Day saw fans from all

over the world come together to celebrate this most

splendiferous of occasions.

Great Misseden, in Buckinghamshire where Roald

lived and wrote most his books, is now home to the

fantastic Roald Dahl Museum and Story Center.It has

lots of interesting displays about him and his books.

Get more info at roalddahlmuseum

Meet Roald Dahl

What is his

name?

•

BFG

•

Roald

•

Dahl

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Matilda

What is your name?

Roald Dahl was born on?

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September13th ,1916

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August 28th ,1926

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March 8th , 1936

When were you

born?

He was born

in?

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England

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Wales

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Norway

Where were you born?

His height was?

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1.6 metres

•

1.9 metres

•

2 metres

How tall are you?

He had how many children?

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three

•

four

•

five

Do you have any brothers or sisters?

Which of these Roald Dahl

books was published first?

•

James and the Giant Peach

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Matilda

•

BFG

What is your favourite book?

His favourite food was

•

Chocolate

•

Caviar

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Prawns

What is your favourite food?

His favourite music was

•

Frank Sinatra

•

The Beatles

•

Beethoven

What is your favourite music?

His favourite colour was

•

Blue

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Yellow

•

Purple

What is your favourite colour?

If he had not been an author, what would he have been?

•

Actor

•

Doctor

•

Athlete

What would you like to be when you grow up?

Personal name: Roald Dahl

Birthday: September, 13 th 1916

Birth place: Wales

Height: 6,6 ( 2 metres)

Favourite book: James and the Giant Peach

Meal: Caviar

Music: Beethoven

Colour: Yellow

Favourite smell: Bacon frying

Job: Doctor