Today is Roald Dahl Day, held every year on September 13 to mark the author's birthday. He wrote some of the most popular, most uplifting children's books ever, believing it was important for an ...

One of the most beloved children's authors of all time, British writer Roald Dahl was renowned for his imaginative ...

New editions of classic 20th century children’s books by British author Roald Dahl – such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The Witches and Fantastic Mr ...

Roald Dahl's first wife Patricia Neal and second wife Felicity Dahl speak about their first encounters with the author. This clip was taken from an episode of BBC Wales arts series The Slate, Roald ...

Roald Dahl's career as a children's author began after the birth of his children. As Ophelia notes in the clip above, Dahl's books stemmed from the stories that he would often tell his children before ...

Roald Dahl spent two years at the Cathedral School in Llandaff, from the age of seven to nine. He then moved to St Peter's boarding school in Weston-super-Mare and suffered from homesickness. At the ...

But I used scratchy ink nibs to illustrate the 18 books I did for Roald Dahl over the 15 years I knew him until his death in 1990. The characters in The Twits are really unpleasant, so I had to ...

Proceeds of the sale will benefit Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity, which provides specialist nurses and support for children and families living with some of the most serious and complex ...

They provide a way to introduce complex ideas in an accessible manner. This is not limited to works that were created by Dahl ...

What we do with “problematic” issues in classic books – the whiteface subplot in Doctor Dolittle, for instance, or Roald Dahl’s fatphobia – is a matter for thoughtful debate. But as ...

Dahl was many things -- a pilot, a spy, a casual anti-Semite -- but he was most famously a writer. Although he wrote ... (The hut is currently on display at the Roald Dahl Museum in Great ...