Boy and Going Solo. When Dahl died in November 1990, my parents took me out for pizza to break the news. I cried. I'd assumed -- fairly reasonably -- that, like sunrises, Roald ... The judge ruled ...

New editions of classic 20th century children’s books by British author Roald Dahl – such as Charlie ... a rubber ring”; “Who’s the big fat boy?”; and “Enormous, isn’t he?” ...

In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly ...

The whole world knows Roald Dahl as the ... ‘We’ve got a new matron called Miss Farmer in place of Miss Turner,’ he writes at the age of eleven, ‘who left last term, one night in the washing room, ...

In “Fantastic Mr Fox”, Roald Dahl introduces the farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean who are “as nasty and mean as any men you ...

An iconic Roald Dahl character takes centre stage in the first supermarket Christmas advert of the year, released by Sainsbury’s. The BFG, the 24-foot-tall friendly giant known for being part of ...

Perhaps, in the squeamish spirit of the times, the Royal Court Theatre in London should have put on two versions of “Giant”, a blistering new play about Roald Dahl—one that quoted his ...

I telephone Dahl, played by Lithgow, my voice is played by the marvellous actor Richard Hope, and for 10 minutes on the speakerphone Roald Dahl and I argue and debate. Then the play ends.

Roald Dahl has taken London by storm. At the same time that a musical based on his children’s book Matilda runs at the Cambridge Theatre in Covent Garden, Mark Rosenblatt’s Giant, a semi ...

LONDON — Hailed as “one of the greatest storytellers” of the 20th century, Roald Dahl wrote some of Britain’s most beloved children’s books, sprinkled with magical characters like “Fan ...

Visit the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, a marvellous family attraction based in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire. Come face-to-face with Fantastic Mr Fox, measure up to your Roald Dahl ...