The BFG

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Roald Dahl's Revolting Rule Book (TV Movie 2007)". IMDb. 22 September 2007. Archived from the original on 7 March 2021 . Retrieved 26 May 2020. The BFG (short for The Big Friendly Giant) is a 1982 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. It is an expansion of a short story from Dahl's 1975 novel Danny, the Champion of the World. The book is dedicated to Dahl's late daughter, Olivia, who died of measles encephalitis at the age of seven in 1962. [1] The rewriting of Roald Dahl". The Telegraph. 24 February 2023. Archived from the original on 2 March 2023 . Retrieved 19 February 2023. Dahl, Roald (1999). "Min mor". I Roald Dahls kjøkken. Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag. p.65. ISBN 8205256136. I know other kids of similar age will not bat an eyelid at some of the themes, just know where your kids limits are before reading this book.

Dahl first attended The Cathedral School, Llandaff. At age eight, he and four of his friends were caned by the headmaster after putting a dead mouse in a jar of gobstoppers at the local sweet shop, [5] which was owned by a "mean and loathsome" old woman named Mrs Pratchett. [5] The five boys named their prank the " Great Mouse Plot of 1924". [30] Mrs Pratchett inspired Dahl's creation of the cruel headmistress Miss Trunchbull in Matilda, and a prank, this time in a water jug belonging to Trunchbull, would also appear in the book. [31] [32] Gobstoppers were a favourite sweet among British schoolboys between the two World Wars, and Dahl referred to them in his fictional Everlasting Gobstopper which was featured in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. [33] Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity". Marvellouschildrenscharity.org. Archived from the original on 1 April 2014 . Retrieved 28 January 2011. a b Dellatto, Marisa (20 February 2023). "Roald Dahl Books Get New Edits—And Critics Cry Censorship: The Controversy Surrounding 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' And More". Forbes. Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. ISSN 0015-6914. Archived from the original on 28 February 2023 . Retrieved 27 February 2023.

Dahl had Jewish friends, including the philosopher Isaiah Berlin, who commented: "I thought he might say anything. Could have been pro-Arab or pro-Jew. There was no consistent line. He was a man who followed whims, which meant he would blow up in one direction, so to speak." [197] Amelia Foster, director of the Roald Dahl Museum in Great Missenden, says: "This is again an example of how Dahl refused to take anything seriously, even himself. He was very angry at the Israelis. He had a childish reaction to what was going on in Israel. Dahl wanted to provoke, as he always provoked at dinner. His publisher was a Jew, his agent was a Jew... and he thought nothing but good things of them. He asked me to be his managing director, and I'm Jewish." [205] Cameron, Eleanor (19 October 1972). "McLuhan, Youth, and Literature: Part I". The Horn Book. Archived from the original on 10 August 2020 . Retrieved 14 October 2020. Sharp, Michael D. (2005). Popular Contemporary Writers. Marshall Cavendish. ISBN 978-0-7614-7601-6. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023 . Retrieved 5 October 2016. Clifton, Tony; Leroy, Catherine (1983). God Cried. Quartet. ISBN 978-0-7043-2375-9. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023 . Retrieved 23 September 2020.

Chantal Sophia "Tessa" (born 1957), who became an author, and mother of author, cookbook writer and former model Sophie Dahl (after whom Sophie in The BFG is named); [83]Roald Dahl's School Days". BBC Wales. Archived from the original on 25 February 2010 . Retrieved 24 January 2010. The Butcher Boy: The youngest of the nine man-eating giants. Motion-captured by Michael Adamthwaite in the 2016 film.

Coren, Michael (26 August 1983). "From the NS archive: Tale of the unexpected: 26 August 1983: Roald Dahl continues to voice his anti-Semitism". New Statesman. Archived from the original on 8 October 2021 . Retrieved 8 October 2021. Dellatto, Marisa (20 February 2023). "Roald Dahl Books Get New Edits—And Critics Cry Censorship: The Controversy Surrounding 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' And More". Forbes. Archived from the original on 28 February 2023 . Retrieved 26 February 2023. a b c "Roald Dahl on God: The day I lost faith in 'the Boss' ". The Telegraph. No.6 August 2010. Archived from the original on 10 January 2022. Roald Dahl, The Minpins Scarecrow of the BFG (the Big Friendly Giant) at a festival in Yorkshire. Many of Dahl's new words are spoken by the character. [129]

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Peter Rabbit blazed a trail still well trod". The Times. Archived from the original on 6 October 2022 . Retrieved 6 October 2022. a b "World Book Day 2019: Roald Dahl's 10 best children's books, from Matilda to The Twits". The Independent. Archived from the original on 4 November 2019 . Retrieved 4 November 2019. In November 1939, Dahl joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) as an aircraftman with service number 774022. [56] After a 600-mile (970km) car journey from Dar es Salaam to Nairobi, he was accepted for flight training with sixteen other men, of whom only three survived the war. With seven hours and 40 minutes experience in a De Havilland Tiger Moth, he flew solo; [57] Dahl enjoyed watching the wildlife of Kenya during his flights. He continued to advanced flying training in Iraq, at RAF Habbaniya, 50 miles (80km) west of Baghdad. Following six months' training on Hawker Harts, Dahl was commissioned as a pilot officer on 24 August 1940, and was judged ready to join a squadron and face the enemy. [56] [58] Dahl was flying a Gloster Gladiator when he crash landed in Libya Shores, Christopher; Williams, Clive (2008). Aces High: A Tribute to the Most Notable Fighter Pilots of the British and Commonwealth Forces of WWII. Vol.One. Grub Street Publishing. ISBN 978-1-898697-00-8. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023 . Retrieved 23 September 2020.

Treglown, Jeremy (2016) [1994]. Roald Dahl: A Biography. Open Road Media. ISBN 978-1-5040-3859-1. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023 . Retrieved 22 September 2020. a b "Fans gather for Dahl celebration". BBC. 13 September 2006. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014 . Retrieved 16 September 2014. UK world's best selling children author on Gibraltar stamps". World Stamp News (worldstampnews.com). 15 May 2010. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011 . Retrieved 28 January 2011. a b Cumming, Ed; Buchanan, Abigail; Holl-Allen, Genevieve; Smith, Benedict (24 February 2023). "The Writing of Roald Dahl". The Telegraph . Retrieved 20 March 2023. Roald Dahl Day: From Tales of the Unexpected to Switch Bitch, Dahl's undervalued stories for adults". The Independent. 6 October 2017. Archived from the original on 19 December 2017 . Retrieved 28 December 2017.

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a b Dirda, Michael (7 December 1990). "Opinion | Roald Dahl Also Left a Legacy of Bigotry (Published 1990)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 19 October 2020 . Retrieved 14 October 2020. Dahl reviewed Australian author Tony Clifton's God Cried, a picture book about the siege of West Beirut by the Israeli army during the 1982 Lebanon War. [193] The article appeared in the August 1983 issue of the Literary Review and was the subject of much media comment and criticism at the time. [194] [195] [196] According to Dahl, until this point in time "a race of people", meaning Jews, had never "switched so rapidly from victims to barbarous murderers." The empathy of all after the Holocaust had turned "into hatred and revulsion." [195] Dahl wrote that Clifton's book would make readers "violently anti-Israeli", with Dahl stating: "I am not anti-Semitic. I am anti-Israel." [197] He asked: "must Israel, like Germany, be brought to her knees before she learns how to behave in this world?" [198] The United States, he said, was "so utterly dominated by the great Jewish financial institutions" that "they dare not defy" Israelis. [195] a b "Roald Dahl on the death of his daughter". The Telegraph. No.3 February 2015. Archived from the original on 14 July 2015 . Retrieved 3 April 2018. Day, Elizabeth (9 November 2008). "My years with Roald. Felicity Dahl talks to Elizabeth Day". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Archived from the original on 31 October 2019 . Retrieved 16 May 2019. . Sophie: The imaginative, creative, nearsighted and kind-hearted protagonist of the story who becomes a brave international heroine. Named after Dahl's first grandchild, Sophie Dahl. [7] Voiced by Amanda Root in the 1989 film and portrayed by Ruby Barnhill in the 2016 film.