Pysa4ka presents media project English Visuals Precarpathian University Ukraine Прикарпатський університет (с) Писачка, 2019 mazepi10@gmail.com

1. Roald Dahl
(13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990)
was a British novelist, short story writer, poet,
screenwriter, and fighter pilot.

3. 3. From 1929, he attended a boarding school at which he had to
endure routine cruelty, including beatings and violence.
Older boys would make younger boys at the school their servants, and
Roald became very homesick, writing a letter to his mother every
week. She kept all of his letters, wrapped up with green tape, and they
would be given back to Roald Dahl when she died in 1967.

7. 8.In 1965, whilst pregnant with their fifth child, Patricia Neal
suffered 3 burst aneurysms. Roald helped her re-learn to walk
and talk and she even managed to go back to acting.
However, the couple divorced in 1983, and Roald married
Felicity 'Liccy' Crosland.

10. 1. Nestlé provided 1,850 bars of real chocolate for the
production of the movie.
2. Forty squirrels were trained for the scene where they
pounce upon the character Veruca Salt.

11. 4. Charlie’s father works at a toothpaste factory which makes
Smilex toothpaste. Smilex is the name of the products concocted
by the Joker in Batman (1989), also directed by Tim Burton.

14. 1. The book was almost called 'James and the Giant Cherry'
The inspiration for the giant peach came from a cherry tree in
the orchard at Roald Dahl’s Buckinghamshire countryside home.
He began to wonder what would happen if one of the cherries
kept growing and growing - and growing! He considered several
different giant fruits, but eventually settled on the idea of a giant
peach.