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by Roald Dahl

• The BFG Summary

As the book starts, a young girl named Sophie lies in bed in an orphanage. She can’t sleep, and sees a strange sight in the street. A giant man is walking in the street, carrying a suitcase and what looks like a trumpet. He sees Sophie, who runs to her bed and tries to hide. This doesn’t work, and the giant picks her up through the window. Then, he starts to run incredibly fast, until he reaches a large cave, which he enters.

When he sets Sophie down, she begins to plead for her life, believing that the giant will eat her. The giant laughs, and explains that most giants do eat human beings, and that the people’s origins affect their taste. For example, people from Greece taste greasy. The giant then says that he will not eat her, as he is the BFG, or the Big Friendly Giant.

The BFG then explains that he must stay with her forever, as no one can know of his existence. He warns her of the dangers of leaving his cave, as his neighbors are sure to eat her if they catch her. The BFG then explains what he was doing with the trumpet and suitcase. He catches dreams, stores them in the cave, and then gives the good ones to children all around the world. He destroys the bad ones. The BFG then explains that he only eats snozzcumbers, which are disgusting vegetables that taste of frogskins. Another giant, the Bloodbottler, then storms in. Sophie hides in a snozzcumber and is nearly eaten by the Bloodbottler.

After this, Sophie and the BFG vow to make the other giants disappear. The BFG and Sophie then partake in some frobscottle, which is a carbonated liquid that causes extreme flatulence. After this, the two go to Dream Country to catch some dreams and the BFG shows Sophie his collection of dreams. Later, Sophie has an idea on how to beat the other giants. She has the BFG give the Queen of England a dream that shows the malevolent giants. This frightens the Queen and wakes her up, at which point Sophie explains that her dream was real. The Queen then vows to help the two.

With other countries' assistance, they construct a giant pit. With the BFG’s help, they lure the other giants into the trap, where they can’t eat anyone else. Instead, they must eat snozzcumbers. At the end, it is revealed that the BFG and Sophie live in a mansion, where Sophie is teaching the BFG how to read and write, and the BFG is actually writing the book.

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The mood is mysterious and exciting.

How many dreams did the BFG mix together?

The BFG mixed about fifty dreams together.

Sophie sat watching him but said nothing. Inside the big jar, lying on the bottom of it, she could clearly see about fifty of those oval sea-green jellyish shapes , all pulsing gently in and out, some...

The BFG's name?

The BFG introduces himself as the Big Friendly Giant, but the other giants call him Runt.

Suddenly, a tremendous thumping noise came from outside the cave entrance and a voice like thunder shouted, ‘Runt! Is you there, Runt? I is hearing you...

Study Guide for The BFG

The BFG study guide contains a biography of Roald Dahl, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

• About The BFG
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The BFG essays are academic essays for citation. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of The BFG by Roald Dahl.

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When the BFG and Sophie discuss whether bubbles sh

Appearances are not always what they seem: The BFG

Sofie is a creative and brave hero with a heart of

The bigger giants eat humans, including lots of ch

Sophie tells the BFG that kids drink Coke and Peps

The narrator says the BFG holds a bottle of frobsc

Parents need to know that Roald Dahl's The BFG is a delightful fantasy about a girl named Sophie who makes friends with a Big Friendly Giant. It's full of vivid characters and hilariously creative language. The BFG uses an abundance of invented words and inverted idioms ("Am I right or am I left?" "Hopscotchy…

Educational Value

When the BFG and Sophie discuss whether bubbles should rise up or sink down, it will make kids think about the science of bubbles. When the BFG talks about how humans in different regions taste, readers will learn names of different countries.

Positive Messages

Appearances are not always what they seem: The BFG seems very scary at first, but the more he and Sophie get to know one another, the better they understand each other's language.

Positive Role Models

Sofie is a creative and brave hero with a heart of gold. The BFG risks his own safety to save human lives.

Violence & Scariness

The bigger giants eat humans, including lots of children. Their names underscore their brutality: Bonecruncher, Fleshlumpeater, Bloodbottler, Childchewer, Meatdripper, Gizzaardgulper, Maidmasher, Manhugger, and Butcher Boy.

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Sophie tells the BFG that kids drink Coke and Pepsi.

Drinking, Drugs & Smoking

The narrator says the BFG holds a bottle of frobscottle like it is a "bottle of rare wine." Three men drink too much beer and fall into a pit of giants.

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Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that Roald Dahl's The BFG is a delightful fantasy about a girl named Sophie who makes friends with a Big Friendly Giant. It's full of vivid characters and hilariously creative language. The BFG uses an abundance of invented words and inverted idioms ("Am I right or am I left?" "Hopscotchy," "Delumptious," "Whizzpopping") that could be challenging for young independent readers to decipher, but the book makes a great read-aloud. There are some scary and suspenseful moments for little Sophie, and readers learn that the bigger giants eat children, but there's no graphic violence. Alcohol is mentioned a couple of times, but none is consumed "onscreen." One small warning for parents of impressionable children, though: Sophie and the BFG debate the delights and offenses of burping vs. farting, and a couple of scenes when the BFG passes gas are among the funniest in the book. The book does include lots of humor, as well as a brave hero and heroine, and wonderful, unlikely friendships. The BFG was made into an animated film (1989) and a live action/CGI movie (2016) directed by Steven Spielberg .

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Really good, funny book, what's the story.

Roald Dahl's THE BFG begins late at night when a little orphan girl named Sophie is the only one awake. She goes to the window and sees a giant walking down the street, carrying a suitcase and peering into people's windows. When the giant sees her, he grabs her and takes her back to his cave in Giant Country. Sophie is afraid that she'll be eaten, but her new friend, the Big Friendly Giant, explains in his own sideways version of English that though the other giants in this land are twice his size and eat children all over the world, he eats nothing but disgusting snozzcumbers -- a mythical vegetable.

Sophie also learns all about the ways the BFG captures dreams in Dream Country and secretly blows dreams into people's sleeping heads. One day, Sophie finds out that the other giants are planning to gallop to England, where they'll eat up lots of children. That's when Sophie and the BFG hatch a plan to mobilize Her Majesty the Queen's soldiers to stop the kid-eating giants once and for all.

Is It Any Good?

This funny fantasy about a girl and a friendly giant has loads of appeal for young readers, from action to wordplay to gross-out humor. Each of the late Roald Dahl's books has a special quality that sets it apart, and in this case, it's silly, smart, hilarious playing with language. The BFG has never been to school, and "sometimes is saying things a little squiggly." Kids who got a laugh out of Willy Wonka's reference to "snozzberries" in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory will find even more to giggle about here. All of the babblement makes The BFG a delightful book to read out loud. The story also has plenty of suspense (for youngsters) even as it just keeps getting funnier, all the way to the rewarding finish.

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Families can talk about the funny things the giant says in The BFG . Do any of them seem familiar? Do you like the way he talks?

What do Sophie and the BFG have in common that helps them become good friends?

Have you read other books by Roald Dahl ? What does The BFG have in common with the other Dahl books that you like?

Book Details

• Author : Roald Dahl
• Illustrator : Quentin Blake
• Genre : Fantasy
• Topics : Magic and Fantasy , Friendship
• Book type : Fiction
• Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date : May 21, 2006
• Publisher's recommended age(s) : 7 - 11
• Number of pages : 208
• Last updated : December 13, 2018

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Introduction

British author Roald Dahl first made his mark as a leading writer of children’s literature in 1961, when he published James and the Giant Peach . His subsequent books include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , Fantastic Fox , Matilda , and his 1982 novel The BFG (Big Friendly Giant), which was illustrated by Quentin Blake and based on a segment of Dahl’s 1975 book Danny, the Champion of the World . His books have been viewed as darker than traditional children’s tales, particularly with respect to the revenge that is at times wrought on adults by children. In all, Dahl has written 19 children’s books.

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The BFG opens with Sophie , an eight-year-old girl who lives in an orphanage in an English village, looking out into the street from her bed in her dormitory. At first the street is quiet and deserted, but then she sees a huge man slinking along, hiding in the shadows. Sophie watches the person approach. He has with him a suitcase and an object that looks like a trumpet; he blows his trumpet silently into the bedroom across the street. The giant notices Sophie and she runs to her bed and attempts to hide. The giant, however, approaches, reaches through the window, and carries her off in her blanket. He speeds off on foot, running for hours, and eventually carries her into a cave in a strange and barren country. Sophie later learns that she is in Giant Country. In the cave, which is the giant’s home, Sophie begs the giant not to eat her. This makes him laugh and he tells her that he is not going to eat her, as he is the Big Friendly Giant (BFG).

Although he does not plan to eat Sophie, he tells her that she has to now stay with him forever, because no one can ever learn that he—or the other giants—exists. He tells her she needs to be cautious because if she leaves his cave then the neighbors, nine man-eating giants far bigger than he is, will catch her and eat her.

The BFG tells Sophie that since he does not eat humans, he subsists on snozzcumbers, which are a disgusting variety of vegetable that look like cucumbers. When another giant, the Bloodbottler, arrives, Sophie hides in a snozzcumber and is almost eaten by the Bloodbottler, who takes a bite that includes Sophie, spits it out, sending Sophie flying across the cave, then leaves. Fortunately, the Bloodbottler does not notice Sophie.

The BFG takes Sophie to Dream Country in order to capture dreams. They encounter the nine man-eating giants on the way, who taunt the BFG and throw him and kick him. Once in Dream Country, the BFG shows Sophie how he catches dreams, but while doing so catches a nightmare. The BFG tells her about the items he carries with him every night. The suitcase contains jars in which he stores the dreams that he catches. He then blows them into the windows of children with the trumpet-like device. The good dreams are given to children throughout the world and the bad ones he usually destroys, although when they return to Giant Country, he decides to blow the nightmare he just caught into the Fleshlumpeater’s face, which causes a huge fight among the giants.

Sophie suggests that they involve the Queen of England to help imprison the other giants to prevent them from killing more people. The BFG mixes a dream which conveys the information about the existence of the nine man-eating giants, as well as himself. Sophie leads the BFG to Buckingham Palace. The BFG gives the Queen the nightmare containing the man-eating giants. Included in the dream is an awareness of Sophie being present on the windowsill of the Queen’s bedroom, which leads the Queen to believe in the information contained in the dream, and she wakes up to see Sophie. She invites Sophie and the BFG to breakfast and they discuss a plan to vanquish the other giants.

A battalion of helicopters is dispatched to follow the BFG and Sophie to the homeland of the giants, where they tie them up while sleeping. They are not very difficult to capture, with the exception of Fleshlumpeater, who awakens while the British forces try to tie him up. Sophie and the BFG dupe Fleshlumpeater into putting his limbs in position to be tied by telling him that a poisonous snake has bitten him, when in actuality, it was Sophie stabbing him with her brooch.

The helicopters transport the giants to London and imprison them in a deep pit. A castle is built as a home for the BFG, and a cottage for Sophie, both on the grounds of Buckingham Palace next to the Queen’s castle. They are, for many years, the recipients of gifts from all of the countries around the world that were ever threatened by giants. The novel, it is learned at the end, was written by the BFG as a record of his adventures with Sophie.

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• Adventure , Fantasy , Humor

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• Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group
• Booktrust 100 Best Books for Children, 2014

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Plot Summary

Eight-year-old Sophie peers out the window of her orphanage one night and sees something terrifying. A huge, dark shadow is coming down the street. A gigantic hand reaches through the window and plucks her from her bed. She squirms as the giant man holding her hurries to his cave in Giant Land.

Sophie soon discovers the giant isn’t planning to eat her as she’d feared. He is a big, friendly giant (or BFG). Unlike the other nine much larger and more horrifying giants that live in Giant Land, the BFG is fairly civilized. While the others are big, smelly, hairy and wear loincloths, he dresses in regular clothes. While they scour the world each night in search of people to devour, he doesn’t eat humans. But like all the giants, he has a strange, mixed up way of speaking that sometimes baffles the little girl.

The BFG tells Sophie if she wants to be safe, she must never let the other giants know she exists. He feels sad for her as she tells him about losing her parents and the sorrows of orphanage life. She asks him what he was doing in her town, walking the streets at night with a long, thin trumpet and a suitcase. He explains that he can hear things very keenly with his big ears. He can even hear dreams floating in the air. He collects them and, with his trumpet, blows good dreams into children’s rooms at night.

A giant named Bloodbottler enters the BFG’s cave, and Sophie hides inside an unpleasant vegetable called a snozzcumber. Bloodbottler takes a bite of the snozzcumber and spits it out, spewing Sophie across the room. After the unsuspecting Bloodbottler leaves, the BFG cleans Sophie off. The two begin hatching a plan to get rid of the other giants.

One day after being tossed around by the other giants as they would a toy, the BFG takes Sophie with him to Dream Country. He shows her how he catches dreams with his net and bottles them, labeling them so he’ll know what each is about. He even catches one bad dream and gives it to a giant named Fleshlumpeater back home. The giant’s thrashing during his nightmare ignites a brawl between the nine giants but still does nothing to eliminate them.

Sophie suggests they tell the Queen of England how the giants are snatching and eating people. She and the BFG decide to create a dream for the queen. In it, the queen will see giants eating English children. The dream will tell her about the BFG and how he can help her capture the giants. Finally, the dream will reveal a little girl sitting on her windowsill, who will lead the queen to the BFG. Once she awakens, she will find Sophie on her windowsill and know the dream was true. The giant mixes many dreams together to get just the right story for the queen’s dream.

The plan goes off without a hitch, and the surprised queen allows Sophie to introduce her to the BFG. After the queen makes arrangements for Sophie and the BFG to have breakfast with her, she calls a few other countries to confirm that they, like England, have had groups of humans go missing in the past few days. She is convinced the BFG’s story is true.

The queen sends her military with nine helicopters to follow Sophie and the BFG to Giant Land. The sleeping giants are tied up and carried by helicopter back to England, where an enormous pit has been dug to contain them. The BFG brings his collection of dreams back to England with him, as well as a bag of the horrible snozzcumbers. He says he will help the royal gardener grow them so the giants can eat them forever.

World leaders send gifts of thanks to the BFG and Sophie. The queen has a special home built for the BFG and a cottage next door for Sophie. The BFG also gets a special room for storing his dreams, and people all over the world write him letters asking him to visit them. Tourists come at feeding time to hear the giants eat their snozzcumbers. The only tragedy occurs when three drunk men climb over the safety fence and fall in to the giant pit. Sophie teaches the BFG to read and write properly. As the book ends, readers discover the author is the BFG.

Christian Beliefs

The BFG tells one of the giants to say his prayers as the BFG pretends to remove a viper from the brute’s leg.

Other Belief Systems

Lying in the darkness, Sophie remembers how someone once told her about the witching hour. They said it was a moment in the middle of the night when all the dark things came out of hiding and had the world to themselves. The BFG tells Sophie that giants aren’t born. They simply appear, the same way as the moon and the stars. The BFG collects dreams to give to children. He takes Sophie into Dream Country and shows her how to catch and bottle them. Later, he and Sophia give the queen a dream of giants eating English children and how the BFG can help her capture the giants.

Authority Roles

Sophie’s parents died when she was a baby. Mrs. Clonkers, who runs the orphanage where she lives, punishes the children by locking them in a dark, rat-filled cellar without food or drink. The gentle BFG protects and cares for Sophie, who thinks of him as a father. Despite the strange circumstances, the queen handles the BFG’s visit with decorum. She wants to ensure justice is done, but she refuses to set a bad example by ordering the giants be murdered.

Profanity & Violence

The words gosh, darn and golly appear once or twice.

Sexual Content

The BFG kisses Sophie on the cheek.

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Sophie, a young orphaned girl, is lying awake one night with a moonbeam shining in her eyes. She gets up from her bed in the dormitory of the orphanage where she lives to close her curtains and sees a giant coming down the street. She watches as the giant sticks something that looks like a trumpet through the bedroom window of some neighbor children and blows. When the giant turns he sees Sophie and snatches her from her room. The giant takes Sophie to Giant Country where he lives in a cave.

Once there, Sophie learns that the giant is called the Big Friendly Giant (the BFG) because he does not eat people, unlike the nine other giants living in Giant Country. The other giants are much larger and uglier than the BFG and they often bully him. These giants travel nightly to countries around the world to eat people. Sophie isn’t able to go back to the orphanage because the BFG is afraid she’ll tell others about the existence of giants and he’ll be forced to live in a zoo.

The BFG tells Sophie that he often travels to Dream Country to collect dreams, which he places in jars and blows into the windows of children. This is what she saw him doing with the trumpet in her village. He takes her to collect dreams and she finds out he can also catch nightmares. The two devise a plan to mix up a nightmare for the Queen of England to convince her of the existence of giants so that they can stop the giants from ever eating another human being.

Sophie and the BFG deliver the dream to the Queen who treats them very kindly. She orders the Army and the Air Force to follow the BFG to Giant Country to capture the giants. The BFG and Sophie lead the military there and they tie up the giants to bring them back to England where they will live out their lives in captivity.

Upon their return to England, the giants are placed in a huge pit where they will eat nothing but snozzcumbers, a terrible tasting vegetable, for the rest of their lives. The Queen has a huge house built for the BFG and a small cottage built for Sophie. Sophie teaches the BFG how to speak, read, and write better and he becomes an author.

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‘This is an excellent work of fantasy’

I didn’t want to stop reading till the end I found the book really interesting.

It is about a young girl Sophie meeting the big, friendly giant. She is initially scared but later strikes a strong friendship with the BFG. Their conversations are long but humorous. The part about dreams interested me the most.

The names of the other giants such as the fleshlumpeater and blood bottler were descriptive and amusing.

This is an excellent work of fantasy. I recommend it to everyone.

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The BFG by Roald Dahl

• Publication Date: August 16, 2007
• Genres: Adventure , Children's 6-10 , Children's 9-13 , Fiction
• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Puffin
• ISBN-10: 0142410381
• ISBN-13: 9780142410387

Buy This Book * More books by Roald Dahl

The well-loved story of a big friendly giant who spirits a child out of bed to the land of the child-eating giants. The BFG is one of Dahl’s most lovable character creations. Whether galloping off with Sophie nestled into the soft skin of his ear to capture dreams as though they were exotic butterflies; speaking his delightful, jumbled, squib-fangled patois; or whizzpopping for the Queen, he leaves an indelible impression of big-heartedness.

Teaching Ideas and Resources:

• Roald Dahl lists the characters (including humans and giants) in the book at the start. Could you write a sentence / paragraph to describe each one?
• The story begins with Sophie in a silent dormitory. Think of somewhere that is silent and think of words to describe how it feels to be there.
• Imagine what might happen in ‘the witching hour’. Write a story about one of these things.
• Read the last sentences of the first chapter and predict what might be coming up the street.
• Roald Dahl uses lots of similes to describe the BFG (‘an arm as thick as a tree trunk’, and ‘nose as sharp as a knife’). Can you make up some more?
• Imagine that you have just been picked up by a pair of giant hands. Write a story about what happens next  (see Resources below) .
• The BFG uses lots of made up words. Can you think of some more and say what they mean? Could you make a dictionary / glossary for your words?
• Think of words to describe snozzcumbers!
• Describe your favourite dream? What happened? How did it make you feel?
• Write some new labels for dream jars? (see Resources below).
• The giants are afraid of Jack, the famous giant-killer. Can you retell that story to a friend?
• BFG is an acronym. Can you find out other acronyms that people use? Could you make up some of your own?
• The BFG uses a book by Charles Dickens to learn how to write. Can you find out about this author?
• Write a recipe for a new dream. What ‘ingredients’ will you need? Think about the order that you will need to mix them in? Could you write some instructions to teach somebody else how to make this dream?
• Describe a dream that you would like to have… or think of a nice dream that you could mix for somebody else.
• Make an acrostic using the letters in ‘The BFG’  (see Resources below) .
• Imagine that the BFG wrote another book. What might it be about?
• Listen to the  audiobook version of the story . Could you record passages from the text using different accents / expression / sound effects to make it interesting to the listener?
• Read the  play version of the story  and prepare your own performance. You could also use this video for inspiration:

• Watch the  cartoon version of the story . How does it compare to the book? Could you write a review of the book and the film?
• Think of words to describe each of the giants. Use this video for inspiration:

• Think about the measurements that we might use to work out how tall the BFG is. How could we measure how long his stride is?
• The BFG has enormous ears so that he can hear ‘absolutely every single twiddly little thing’. Use this as a starting point for learning about sound and how we hear.
• The BFG describes how he can hear plants and trees because they are alive? How do we know that they are alive? What life processes do they have?
• The BFG hates eating snozzcumbers. Plan a tasty (and healthy) meal for him!
• Find out about dreams. What are they? Why do we have them?
• The bubbles in frobscottle go downwards, but bubbles in most drinks go upwards. Find out why drinks have bubbles and why they travel in the way that they do!
• Plan, record and edit a trailer for a new movie based on the book. Use this example for inspiration:

• Draw a new giant. Will it be friendly or nasty?
• Make a picture which shows the inside of the BFG’s suitcase after he has been dream-catching.
• Draw a picture of a dream inside a jar  (see Resources below) .
• The BFG uses a trumpet to blow dreams into children’s bedrooms. Find out how trumpets work and describe the sounds that they make.
• Listen to one of the songs from the film. Could you compose a song to use in a new movie adaptation of the book?

• The giants travel to lots of different places to find humans to gobble up. Can you identify some of them on a map? Could you find out about each country?
• Draw a map showing the locations in the story, e.g. the orphanage, the village street where Sophie first sees the BFG, Giant Country, Buckingham Palace.
• Draw a map of the giants’ cave.
• If possible, go on a trip to the  Roald Dahl Museum  to find out more about the author and his life.
• The BFG dreams of having an ‘elefunt’ to ride through green forests on. What are your dreams?
• The BFG is picked on by the other giants. Use this as a starting point for discussions about bullying and how we can help those who are affected by it.
• The BFG explains that ‘human beans is killing each other much quicker than the giants is doing it’. Think of ways of encouraging peace throughout the world.

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• Print length 176 pages
• Language English
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• Dimensions 10.31 x 7.72 x 0.43 inches
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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Puffin; Colour Edition (August 23, 2016)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0141371145
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• Reading age ‏ : ‎ 8 - 12 years
• Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 720L
• Grade level ‏ : ‎ 3 - 7
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.2 ounces
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The son of Norwegian parents, Roald Dahl was born in Wales in 1916 and educated at Repton. He was a fighter pilot for the RAF during World War Two, and it was while writing about his experiences during this time that he started his career as an author.

His fabulously popular children's books are read by children all over the world. Some of his better-known works include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr Fox, Matilda, The Witches, and The BFG.

He died in November 1990.

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