Which Roald Dahl novel features the 'Oompa Loompas'?
"Lucy Dahl Lucy Neal Dahl (born 4 August 1965) is a British screenwriter and daughter of British author Roald Dahl and American actress Patricia Neal. Lucy Dahl was born on 4 August 1965 in England. Her parents were author Roald Dahl and actress Patricia Neal. Dahl wrote the screenplay for ""Wild Child"" and served as a consultant on ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"", based on her father's book of the same name. She is also a content contributor to the online food and wine magazine ""Zester Daily"". Dahl has been married twice. She married firstly, in 1987, Michael Faircloth, with"
"is completely out of touch with reality. She would be howled out of the classroom."" In her essay, Cameron also decried the Oompa-Loompas, who were portrayed as abused, half-naked, African pygmy slaves. The pictures and descriptions of the Oompa-Loompas in ""Charlie"" were revised by Dahl and his publisher Knopf for the 1973 edition to cast the Oompa-Loompas as dwarves from Loompaland whom Willy Wonka adores. Though this appeared to be a direct result of Cameron's criticism, the brief amount of time between the criticism and the publication of the revised edition of ""Charlie"" makes it more likely that the changes"
"published edition, the Oompa-Loompas were described as African pygmies, and were drawn this way in the original printed edition. After the announcement of a film adaptation sparked a statement from the NAACP expressing concern that the transportation of Oompa-Loompas to Wonka's factory resembled slavery, Dahl found himself sympathizing with the NAACP's concerns and published a revised edition. In this edition, as well as the subsequent sequel, the Oompa-Loompas were drawn as being white and appearing similar to hippies, and the references to Africa were deleted. Dahl later expressed regret over the original version, saying that his original intention of depicting"
"against a forest where Whangdoodles live. One of the firemen of the book refers to the centipede as a Whangdoodle. In ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"", Willy Wonka mentions that he saved the Oompa Loompas from Whangdoodles and various other monsters. A different Whangdoodle is described in the children's novel ""The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles"" by singer and actress Dame Julie Andrews (under her married name of Julie Edwards): an intelligent, ungulate-like character capable of changing color to suit its emotions, from whose hind legs grow a new and different set of bedroom slippers each year. It is"
"Roly-Poly Bird The Roly-Poly Bird is a fictional character in children's books by Roald Dahl. He appears in ""The Enormous Crocodile' (1978), ""The Twits"" (1980), and the poetry collection ""Dirty Beasts"" (1983). The Roly-Poly Bird appears in a number of children's books by Roald Dahl – in two cases alongside Muggle-Wump the monkey. The Roly-Poly Bird is large, with fantastically coloured tailfeathers, and in Quentin Blake's illustrations has a blue body, a long neck and a crest on his head - rather like a peacock. He nests in an orange tree at least once, and his favourite foods are berries."
"it rolls through a ""famous chocolate factory"": a reference to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. Towards the end of the book, people in New York City identify the protagonists, incorrectly, as Whangdoodles, Snozzwangers, Hornswogglers, or Vermicious Knids. All of those animals (except the last) are mentioned by Willy Wonka as predators of the Oompa-Loompas; and Vermicious Knids appear in the sequel book, ""Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator"", when they try to link up with the Space Hotel U.S.A. It also references ""the BFG"" in the end of the novel: on the last page, James writes a recount of his adventure"
"Whangdoodle The Whangdoodle is a fanciful creature in folklore and children's literature, most notably used by British authors Roald Dahl and Julie Andrews. Popularized by a sermon parody attributed to William P. Brannan as ""Where the lion roareth and the whangdoodle mourneth for her first-born,"" published in ""The Harp of a Thousand Strings: Or, Laughter for a Lifetime"" (1858). Whangdoodle is also an earlier term for a ""fanciful formation"" or a ""gadget . . . thing for which the correct name is not known."" In Roald Dahl's book ""The Minpins"", one of the main characters is warned by his mother"
"Muggle-Wump ""Muggle-Wump"" is a fictional character in some of Roald Dahl's books for children, and ""the Muggle-Wumps"" are his family. A Muggle-Wump appears in ""The Enormous Crocodile"" and there is a Muggle-Wump with a family in ""The Twits"". A character resembling him (shown in Quentin Blake's illustrations) also appears in ""The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me"". The first two stories have him almost as a symbol of retribution to the antagonists of the overall tale, whereas in the last one he is happy and safe. The Muggle-Wump of ""The Enormous Crocodile"", after reasoning with the wily reptile that it"
"Rusty Goffe Rusty Goffe (born 30 October 1948) is an English-born actor with dwarfism. Goffe was born and raised in Herne Bay, Kent. He attended Sturry Secondary Modern School. He was married to Sarah Gofee and had 2 children Ben and Jack Goffe. Goffe appeared as an Oompa-Loompa in the 1971 version of ""Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"" and as a Jawa in """", among a few other aliens. He also appeared in the films ""Willow"" and ""Flash Gordon"". He played Le Muff in the film ""History of the World Part I"" and also played Goober, a purple gremlin"
"from the novel to abduct and rescue a beautiful but ill-fated young girl—unknown to him, an advertising puppet operated by a deformed pilot—named Delphi, who Isham identifies with Rima. Green Mansions Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest (1904) is an exotic romance by William Henry Hudson about a traveller to the Guyana jungle of southeastern Venezuela and his encounter with a forest dwelling girl named Rima. Prologue: An unnamed narrator tells how he befriended an old ""Hispano-American"" gentleman who never spoke of his past. His interest piqued, the narrator finally elicits the story. Venezuela, c. 1875. Abel, a"
"novel over the years. Children's novelist and literary historian John Rowe Townsend has described the book as ""fantasy of an almost literally nauseating kind"" and accused it of ""astonishing insensitivity"" regarding the original portrayal of the Oompa-Loompas as black pygmies, although Dahl did revise this in later editions. Another novelist, Eleanor Cameron, compared the book to the sweets that form its subject matter, commenting that it is ""delectable and soothing while we are undergoing the brief sensory pleasure it affords but leaves us poorly nourished with our taste dulled for better fare."" Ursula K. Le Guin wrote in support of"
"The Minpins The Minpins is a book by Roald Dahl with illustrations by Patrick Benson. It was published in 1991, a few months after Dahl's death in November 1990, and is the author's final contribution to literature after an illustrious career spanning almost half a century. The book was republished in 2017 under the title Billy and the Minpins with new illustrations by Quentin Blake. Little Billy is forbidden by his mother to enter the Forest of Sin behind his house. She tells him of the Whangdoodle, Hornswogglers, Snozzwanglers and Vermicious knids that live in the forest. Worst of all"
"of the HBO comedy, ""Eastbound & Down"". Deep starred as Sandeep Majumdar in the 2012 short film ""The Ballad of Sandeep"". Deep Roy Gurdeep Roy (born Mohinder Purba; 1 December 1957), sometimes credited as Roy Deep, is an Anglo-Indian actor, stuntman, puppeteer and comedian. Due to his diminutive size, he has appeared in a number of similar-sized roles, such as the Oompa-Loompas in ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"", Keenser in ""Star Trek"" and subsequent films (""Kelvin Timeline""), and in television series such as ""The X-Files"", ""Doctor Who"" and ""Eastbound & Down"". Roy was born in Nairobi, Kenya, to Indian parents."
"the world and to continue his newfound friendship with the Minpins. The Minpins The Minpins is a book by Roald Dahl with illustrations by Patrick Benson. It was published in 1991, a few months after Dahl's death in November 1990, and is the author's final contribution to literature after an illustrious career spanning almost half a century. The book was republished in 2017 under the title Billy and the Minpins with new illustrations by Quentin Blake. Little Billy is forbidden by his mother to enter the Forest of Sin behind his house. She tells him of the Whangdoodle, Hornswogglers, Snozzwanglers"
"My Uncle Oswald My Uncle Oswald is an adult novel written by Roald Dahl. The novel stars Uncle Oswald, a character who previously appeared in ""The Visitor"" and ""Bitch"", two short stories also written by Roald Dahl (and which can be both found in the book ""Switch Bitch""). Dahl's novel was published in 1979. Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, an extremely attractive and wealthy bounder, was the greatest fornicator of his time. In this instalment of his scorchingly frank memoirs, Uncle Oswald recounts his discovery of the sexually invigorating properties of the Sudanese Blister Beetle, and his cunning plan to steal what"
"in the December 1942 issue of ""Cosmopolitan"" Magazine. At Dahl's urging, in early 1943, a revised version of the story, again titled ""The Gremlins"", was published as a picture book by Random House. (It was later updated and re-published in 2006 by Dark Horse Comics.) The 1943 publication of ""The Gremlins"" by Random House consisted of 50,000 copies, with Dahl ordering 50 copies for himself as promotional material for himself and the upcoming film, handing them out to everyone he knew, including the British ambassador in Washington Lord Halifax, and the US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt who read it to"
"anytime, on anyone — regardless of nationality. Although gremlins predated Murphy's Law that ""whatever can go wrong, will"", they were obviously motivated by the same principles. The Gremlins is a children's book, written by Roald Dahl. It was published in 1943 by Random House for Walt Disney and serialized in ""Cosmopolitan"". It was Dahl's first children's book, and was written for Walt Disney Productions, as a promotional device for a feature-length animated film that was never made. With Dahl's assistance, a series of gremlin characters was developed, and although pre-production began, the film project was eventually abandoned, in part because"
"James and the Giant Peach James and the Giant Peach is a popular children's novel written in 1961 by British author Roald Dahl. The original first edition published by Alfred Knopf featured illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. There have been reillustrated versions of it over the years, done by Michael Simeon for the first British edition, Emma Chichester Clark, Lane Smith and Quentin Blake. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1996. The plot centres on a young English orphan boy who enters a gigantic, magical peach, and has a wild and surreal cross-world adventure with"
"in two versions. One features the workers from ""The Vanilla Fudge Room"" but also include ""tiny whispery voices"" who sing the songs after each child's exit, and Charlie with his mother and father. The second version features Grandpa Joe, Charlie's grandfather, who is present in the final book, and the Oompa-Loompas. In the version with the voices, the voices actually sing two songs, a two verse type one found in ""The Vanilla Fudge Room"", plus a longer one like the type that is found in the final book. Like Miranda, Marvin loves school and suffers the same fate as her—supposedly"
"from the 1964 children's book ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"". The Oompa Loompa's design is based on the version used in the 1971 film adaptation ""Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"", which Kirkland watched in order to ""get [the design] right."" In its original American broadcast on January 20, 2002, ""Sweets and Sour Marge"" received a 7.3 rating, according to Nielsen Media Research, translating to approximately 7.5 million viewers. The episode finished in 34th place in the ratings for the week of January 14–20, 2002. On August 24, 2010, ""Sweets and Sour Marge"" was released as part of ""The Simpsons:"
"Switch Bitch Switch Bitch (1974) is a book of adult short stories by British writer Roald Dahl. Four stories, originally published in ""Playboy"" between 1965 and 1974, are collected. They are linked by themes of sexual deception: in each one some large act of cunning, cruelty, or hedonism underpins the sexuality. Some critics have also commented on a theme of misogyny. The female characters are either victims of sexual humiliation, or cruel schemers themselves. The book is notable for its introduction of the Uncle Oswald character, a wealthy hobbyist and gadabout who stars in both the first and last stories."
"Wonka exudes none of the gravity required for the role. It's as though he didn't take the role seriously. Rather than an intimidating candyman teaching brats a lesson, this Wonka is simply a freak."" Depp received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his role as Willy Wonka, but lost to Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash in ""Walk the Line"". Willy Wonka Willy Wonka is a fictional character who appears in Roald Dahl's 1964 children's novel ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" and its sequel ""Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator"". In"
"The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me is a 1985 children's book written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. It is about a young boy, Billy, who meets a giraffe, pelican and monkey who work as window cleaners. Although the story is told in the first person by Billy, the word 'me' in the title refers to the monkey, who concludes every verse of his signature song with the phrase 'the giraffe and the pelly and me'. The story is told from the point of view of Billy, a young boy"
"the thief in the pouch of his enormous bill and later gives him to the police. The Duke then allows the monkey and his friends to live on the grounds of his wealthy estate, and their house is reverted into its former function- a sweetshop- much to the delight of the narrator. The monkey then closes the story with a song. Muggle-Wump ""Muggle-Wump"" is a fictional character in some of Roald Dahl's books for children, and ""the Muggle-Wumps"" are his family. A Muggle-Wump appears in ""The Enormous Crocodile"" and there is a Muggle-Wump with a family in ""The Twits"". A"
"The Enormous Crocodile The Enormous Crocodile is a 1978 children's story, written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. The story begins in Africa in large, deep river, where an enormous, greedy crocodile is telling a smaller crocodile, known as the Not-So-Big One, that he wants to eat children for his lunch. The small crocodile objects, because children taste ""nasty and bitter"" in his opinion compared to fish, and because of what happened the last time the big crocodile tried to eat children. The larger crocodile leaves the big, brown muddy river anyway, and announces his intention to Humpy"
"Beware of the Dog (short story) ""Beware of the Dog"" is a 1944 World War II story by Roald Dahl which was originally published in ""Harper's Magazine"" and later appeared in his """" collection. Its basic plot was adapted into the 1965 movie ""36 Hours"", starring James Garner and Rod Taylor, and the TV movie ""Breaking Point"" in 1989. Pilot Peter Williamson has sustained a massive injury while flying a mission over Vichy France (the name given to the German-controlled areas of the country). He ejects from the plane and later awakes to find himself in a hospital bed in"
"Thoreau wrote a poem called ""Rumors from an Aeolian Harp"", which he included in the ""Monday"" chapter of his first book, ""A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"". Aeolian harps are mentioned in George Eliot's ""Middlemarch"" (1871-2), Thomas Hardy's ""The Trumpet-Major"" (1880) and ""The Mayor of Casterbridge"" (1886), and Vladimir Nabokov's ""Lolita"" (1955). An Aeolian harp is featured in Ian Fleming's 1964 children's novel ""Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang"" to make a cave seem haunted. ""El arpa eólica"" (""The Aeolian Harp"") is an alternate history novelette written by Óscar Esquivias. It was originally published in 2011 by Fábulas de Albión. The novelette depicts"
"Deep Roy Gurdeep Roy (born Mohinder Purba; 1 December 1957), sometimes credited as Roy Deep, is an Anglo-Indian actor, stuntman, puppeteer and comedian. Due to his diminutive size, he has appeared in a number of similar-sized roles, such as the Oompa-Loompas in ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"", Keenser in ""Star Trek"" and subsequent films (""Kelvin Timeline""), and in television series such as ""The X-Files"", ""Doctor Who"" and ""Eastbound & Down"". Roy was born in Nairobi, Kenya, to Indian parents. He made his professional screen acting debut in a 1976 episode of ""The New Avengers"", titled ""Target!"" as a character named"
"Augustus (""The Oompa Loompa Song/Auf Wiedersehen Augustus Gloop""). Wonka fails to console Augustus's distraught mother, as he is more concerned with having to pick bones out of his fudge. The group is stricken, but Wonka assures them Augustus will be fine and sends Mrs. Gloop with the Oompa Loompas to find her son. They continue into the Mixing Room, where an enormous mixing cup mashes random ingredients together to make new flavors and inventions, from furry lollypops to a glowing orb made from bananas and uranium dubbed ""Liquid Sunshine."" At Violet's request, he shows her a stick of gum, which"
"buried in the snow. He then buys himself a Wonka Bar and finds the fifth golden ticket. The ticket says he can bring any family members with him to the factory and Charlie's parents decide to allow Grandpa Joe to go with him. After meeting Wonka, the kids and their parents go inside where they meet Oompa-Loompas, a race of small people who help him operate the factory since he rescued them from poverty and fear in their home country Loompaland. The other kids are ejected from the factory in comical, mysterious and painful ways, befitting their various greedy characters"
"members of ""Wonka"": Tim Brooke-Taylor, who portrayed a computer scientist, although his role was uncredited, Gloria Manon who played the woman whose husband was taken hostage for her crate of Wonka bars, and Rusty Goffe, who was in his twenties when he played one of the Oompa Loompas. Born as Diana Mae Laumer in Chico, California, she was one of five siblings. She attended Chico High School, and appeared in school plays, where she became interested in drama. She graduated in 1949, and attended the University of Denver, after which she appeared in the play ""The Drunkard"". She did voice-over"
"Uncle Oswald Uncle Oswald, or Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, is a fictional character created by Roald Dahl. He is the main character in the novel ""My Uncle Oswald"" (1979). Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, ""the greatest fornicator of all time"", is a womanizing gadabout, whose motto is never to sleep with one woman twice. He is an oenophile, scorpion and walking stick collector, opera lover, and an expert on Chinese porcelain. He is also wealthy, apparently as a result of morally dubious, maybe even illegal, schemes. In ""The Visitor"" Oswald stays with a wealthy Syrian and his beautiful wife and daughter; in ""Bitch"""
"broken, or a short and fat person. Humpty Dumpty has been used in a large range of literary works in addition to his appearance as a character in ""Through the Looking-Glass"", including L. Frank Baum's ""Mother Goose in Prose"" (1901), where the rhyming riddle is devised by the daughter of the king, having witnessed Humpty's ""death"" and her father's soldiers' efforts to save him. In Neil Gaiman's early short story ""The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds"", the Humpty Dumpty story is turned into a film noir-style hardboiled crime story, involving other characters from popular nursery rhymes. Robert Rankin"