Roald Dahl: A Biography
…Kakutani “Roald the Rotten” by Ann Hulbert Covers Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1994 Faber & Faber, 1994 Faber and Faber, 1995 Harcourt Brace & Company, 1995 Open Road Media, 2016…
…Kakutani “Roald the Rotten” by Ann Hulbert Covers Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1994 Faber & Faber, 1994 Faber and Faber, 1995 Harcourt Brace & Company, 1995 Open Road Media, 2016…
…their own autobiographies. Comparative Question (20KB) A long quotation from “Matilda” and a question that asks students to compare Dahl’s description of the Trunchbull to descriptions of his own schoolteachers….
…Dahl. Illustrated. 208 pp. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $14.95. I REMEMBER that when I was very young and curious, with my mouth doubtless as open as a nestling’s,…
…come from Germany, near Hamburg, and I am living here [in England] with my family. . .since three years and enjoying every minute here. So one September day in the…
…kids come up with lots of the ideas. We end the story with a ‘Peach Party’: scented candles, peach tableclothes, plates, balloons, peach water, peach pie, peach candy – you…
…“a strange drug” which might prevent the lethal effects of shock. What made me notice the piece particularly was the headline: PRE-COMBAT INJECTIONS MAY BAR FATAL SHOCK. Sort of made…
Illustrated by John F. Gould “One of our planes is missing, but the pilot is safe,” the communiqué said. Here is that pilot’s report. The author of this factual report…
…beginning to wonder if anything will ever top it. As the iron gates of the Wonka Factory were swung open, it was as if Dahl’s traditional tale had come to…
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