MY REASEARCH ON RAOLD DAHL

BY ADITHYA DURAI, Year 2

ABOUT ROALD DAHL I found out that Roald Dahl was born in 1916 in one of the books I read. He was born in Wales and worked in Africa for a shell company. He died in 1990. He has a very noisy website about his writing and books. I am registered with his website. There are a lot of interesting facts about him and his books in the website.His website is http://www.roalddahl.com/

Facts..• Roald Dahl was a bit of a giant. He was 6'6 (2

meters).• He had five children : Olivia, Tessa, Theo,

Ophelia, Lucy.• His first published book was James and the

giant peach.• His favourite food was caviar.• His favourite music was Beethoven.• His favourite colour was yellow.• His favourite smell was bacon frying.• He lived most of is life at gipsy house.

THE BOOKSEsio trot, Charlie and the chocolate factory, Charlie and the great glass elevator, Matilda, The Twits, fantastic Mr fox, The BFG, Dirty beasts, Danny the champion of the world, The enormous crocodile, George's marvellous medicine.

AWARDS• 1972 Wins New England Round Table of Children's Librarians Award (for Charlie and the Chocolate

Factory).• 1973 Wins Surrey School award (for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).• 1975 Wins Surrey School award (for Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator).• 1978 Wins Nene award (for Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator) and Surrey School award (for Danny

the Champion of the World).• 1979 Wins California Young Reader Medal (for Danny the Champion of the World).• 1982 Wins Federation of Children's Book Groups Award (for The BFG) and Massachusetts Children's

Award (for James and the Giant Peach).• 1983 Wins New York Times Outstanding Books Award, Federation of Children's Book Groups Award,

and Whitbread Award (all for The Witches). Also wins World Fantasy Convention Lifetime Achievement Award.

• 1984 Wins Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis (for The BFG).• 1985 Wins Kurt Maschler award runner–up (for The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me) and Boston

Globe/Horn Book nonfiction honor citation (for Boy – Tales of Childhood).• 1986 Wins West Australian Award (for The Witches) and International Board on Books for Young

People awards for Norwegian and German translations (for The BFG).• 1988 Wins Federation of Children's Book Groups Award (for Matilda).• 1990 Wins Smarties Award (for Esio Trot).• 1997 Wins Good Book Guide "Best Books of the Past 20 Years" (for The BFG).• 1998 Matilda voted "Nation's Favorite Children's Book" in BBC Bookworm Poll.• 2000 Wins Millennium Children's Book Award and Blue Peter Book Award (for Charlie and the

Chocolate Factory).

WHAT I THOUGHT

Esio Trot was the first Roald Dahl book I have read. Esio Trot is a story of love and cheating. The Twits is the most disgusting book Roald Dahl wrote. Fantastic Mr fox is of course the last book I read, it was a good one and I really enjoyed it.

ABOUT ESIO TROT• Esio Trot is a book about love

because Mr Hoppy was in love with Mrs Silver and

• But the problem was that Mrs Silver all her love to someone else and that someone else was Mrs Silvers pet tortoise Alfie.

• Also in the end of the story they all live happily ever after, they get married.

ABOUT THE TWITS

• In the Twits the characters were Mrs Twit, Mr Twit, The 4 monkeys and the Rolly Polly Bird.

• The Twits used to play nasty tricks on each other.

• At the end of the story the Twits get stuck upside down because of the animals.

ABOUT FANTASTIC MR FOX• Fantastic Mr Fox is a very good

story, and I think it is a story about starvation and Mr Fox helping the underground animals to get food.

• Mr Fox was very clever than Boggis, Bunce, and Bean.

• Mr Fox, in the end of the story is named as Fantastic Mr Fox as the name of the story itself.