Roald Dahl was born in 1916 in Wales of Norwegian parents. He was educated in England and went on to work for the Shell Oil Company in Africa, becoming an RAF fighter pilot when the Second World War began. He wrote his first children’s story, James and the Giant Peach, in 1961 and every one of his subsequent books, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Magic Finger, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Matilda, The Twits, The BFG and The Witches, has become a much-loved bestseller all over the world. Roald Dahl died in 1990 at the age of seventy-four.
Books by Roald Dahl
The BFG
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Danny the Champion of the World
The Enormous Crocodile
Esio Trot
Fantastic Mr Fox
George’s Marvellous Medicine
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
James and the Giant Peach
The Magic Finger
Matilda
Rhyme Stew
The Twits
The Witches