Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl was born on the 13th September 1916
Llandalf,Cardiff.He loved chocolate,but not chocolate-
cake or chocolate ice-cream.He wrote the screenplays
for chitty chitty bang bang and the bond movie you-
only live twice. He did not start writing for children
until he had his own.He based the grandmother in"The
Three Witches"on his own mother.He had two steel hips and six operations on his spine.His books were publeshed in 4 different laungesges.
The books that he wrote are called The BFG,Charlie and the
chocolate factory,The Witches,Fantastic Mr fox,Matilda,James
and the giant peach,Geoge's Marvelous medicine,The TWITS,
Danny the champion of the world,The giraffe,the pelly and me,
Charlie and the chocolate factory,Charlie and the great glass
elevator,The magic finger,Boy tales of childhood,Going Solo and
Esio Trot.
He always wrote in pencil on yellow paper.
He died on the 23rd November 1990.He wrote
all of his children's stories in a small hut at the
bottom of his garden.He was a fighter pilot
during world war II.He wrote 21 books for
children-including picture books,novels and
poetry collections-and over 50 stories for adults,
most famously collected as tales of the unexpected
James and the giant peach was nearly called James and the giant cherry.He didn't like going to the cinema or the theater because his legs were so long that he found the seats very uncomfortable.