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1. Master of paradoxical
stories
Roald Dahl
Martynyuk Viktoria

3. Roald was born on September 13,
1916 in Llandaff. Dahl’s parents were
Norwegian. As a child, he spent his
summer vacations visiting with his
grandparents in Oslo. When Dahl was 4
years old, his father died. When Roald
was seven mother decided it was time
for him to go to a proper boy’s school,
so she sent him to nearby Llandaff
Cathedral School. He spent two years
there and his only memories of it are
described in “Boy”.
When the principal gave him a harsh
beating for playing a practical joke,
Dahl’s mother decided to take her
mischievous child to St. Peter’s, a
British boarding school, as had been
her husband’s wish.
Roald attended St. Peter’s from ages nine to thirteen, and he was so
homesick at first that he even faked the symptoms of appendicitis to
earn a trip home. He eventually adjusted to school life, but he never
learned to like it. By the time Roald was thirteen the family had moved
to Kent in England, and he was soon sent off to the famous Repton
Public School.

4. Dahl was very high (its height - 1.98 m). He was also
a great athlete, even a captain of a school team. Played at
soccer team. Also he was fond of photography. After some
time he began to work at the chocolate factory, which pushed for
writing the novel “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”. After graduating
learning at school, Roald decided not to go to university.
Instead, in 1934 he went to work for Shell. At age 20 he went to
Tanzania.

5. It was World War II. Soon all the Englishmen in the territory were
rounded up and transformed into temporary soldiers. After eight
weeks of basic training and six months of advanced flying
instruction, he was ready for battle. In 1939, Dahl joined the Royal
Air Force. After training in Nairobi, Kenya he became a World War
II fighter pilot. While serving in the Mediterranean, Dahl crash-
landed in Alexandria, Egypt. The plane crash left him with serious
injuries. Following a recovery that included a hip replacement and
two spinal surgeries, Dahl was transferred to Washington, D.C.,
where he became an assistant air attaché.
In 1939, it became clear
to Dahl that something
big was coming.

6. While in Washington, D.C., Dahl met with author C.S. Forrester, who
encouraged him to start writing. Dahl wrote his first story for children, The
Gremlins, in 1942, for Walt Disney. The story wasn't terribly successful. Soon
Dahl married film actress Patricia Neal. Dahl told his children nightly bedtime
stories that inspired his future career as a children’s writer. These stories
became the basis for some of his most popular kids’ books, as his children
proved an informative test audience.

8. 1. First

9. Dahl first established himself as a children’s writer in 1961, when he
published the book James and the Giant Peach. The book met with wide
critical and commercial acclaim.

12. 2. Second

14. Dahl has published another great winner, Charlie and the chocolate factory. The book was ultimately made in
popular films. Cinema adaptation of Charlie and Chocolate Factory was released as "Willie Wonka" and
"Chocolate Factory" in 1971, and in 2005 the original title remake of the film, starring Johnny Depp, came out.

17. Three mean local farmers – Boggis, Bunce and
Bean (one fat, one short, one lean) – make it
nearly impossible for Mr. Fox to steal enough
chickens or geese to support his wife and their
three young fox cubs. Not one to die of
starvation, sly Mr. Fox hatches a plan that will
not only get them food, but give those horrible
farmers a taste of their own medicine! Now, all
they’ve got to do is start digging…
The plan goes off without a hitch – almost too
well, in fact. Determined to get rid of Mr. Fox,
the three farmers decide to take action. They
plan different ways to trap and kill Mr. Fox, but
fail miserably each and every time. Then they
come up with their best plan yet: they decided
to dig into Mr. Fox’s home. Now Mr. Fox needs
to think up a solution to this problem, or else his
entire family – and all the other animals who
live in his underground neighbourhood, will be
in big trouble!

20. "Matilda" - the most popular book by Roald Dahl. Matilda is a
brilliant child, but her relatives do not think so. For them she is an
extra trouble, a headache. And Matilda decides re-educate their
limited and loyal relatives, and at the same time the terrible school
principal of Mrs. Tranchbul. In 1988 Matilda was recognized as the
best book for children.

21. It was adapted as an audio reading by actress Kate
Winslet, a 1996 feature film directed by Danny
DeVito, a two-part BBC Radio 4 programme
starring Lauren Mote as Matilda, Embeth Davidtz
as Miss Honey, Nichola McAuliffe as Miss
Trunchbull and narrated by Lenny Henry, and a
2010 musical.
In 2012 Matilda was ranked number 30 among
all-time children's novels in a survey published by
School Library Journal, a monthly with primarily
US audience. It was the first of four books by
Dahl among the Top 100, more than any other
writer.

25. The Witches is about a boy and his grandmother who go on vacation and run into a
witches' meeting. The boy discovers the witches plan to turn the children into mice
and have them killed by rat catchers. He must work with his grandma to stop the
witches' plan.
It's a little surreal to read about all the terrible things witches do and how a young
child is turned into a mouse. But, it's also Roald Dahl, so it's described in such a
way you do not really freak out by it.