A world without Roald Dahl would be a world without Oompa Loompas, Snozzcumbers, or Muggle-Wumps. And who would ever want to live in a world like that?

Below are interesting facts about the famous children’s author.

• Dahl was a fighter pilot with the Royal Air Force during World War II. And it was a plane crash near Alexandria, Egypt that actually inspired him to begin writing.
• Alongside fellow officers Ian Fleming and David Ogilvy, Dahl provided intelligence to an MI6 organization known as the British Security Coordination.
• Roald Dahl wrote many of his books in a shed in his garden, sitting upon an old battered armchair. He wrote everyday from 10 am to 12 noon and then from 4 pm to 6pm. No one else was allowed inside.
• He was friends with the American author, Ernest Hemingway.
• Roald Dahl wrote seventeen children’s stories, and he also produced many works for adults, as well as children’s poetry and film scripts.
• He wrote the screenplays for the movies You Only Live Twice (the James Bond film) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
• He always wrote in pencil on yellow paper.

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MATILDA
Author:Roald Dahl
ISBN:9780141341248

“The Trunchbull” is no match for Matilda!

Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she’s just a nuisance. She expects school to be different but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating terror of a headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull she suddenly discovers she has a remarkable power with which to fight back. It’ll take a superhuman genius to give Miss Trunchbull what she deserves and Matilda may be just the one to do it!

Price: 16,9 GEL

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CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
Author: Roald Dahl
ISBN: 9780141329857

Willy Wonka’s Famous Chocolate Factory is opening at last! But only five lucky children will be allowed inside … and what Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, Mike Teavee, and Charlie Bucket find is even wilder than any of the wild rumors they’ve heard!

Price: 15,9 GEL

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The theme for this week is about Roald Dahl, a British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot, and screenwriter.

He has been referred to as “one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century”. Dahl’s short stories are known for their unexpected endings and his children’s books for their unsentimental, often very dark humor.

Dahl went on to create some of the best-loved children’s stories of the 20th century, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda. Many of his titles have become successful, blockbuster movies.

Meanwhile enjoy a scene from Matilda, a movie adapted from his award-winning book of the same name.