"shoes"". Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka (musical) Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka is a musical that combines elements of both Roald Dahl's book ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" and of the 1971 movie ""Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"" with newly created material. The musical has several versions: the original version which premiered in 2004, the Junior version, the Kids version, and the Theatre for Young Audiences version. All are owned by Music Theatre International, the company that owns the Willy Wonka license. After getting approval from the Dahl estate, Tim McDonald and Leslie Bricusse worked together on the play. McDonald said"
"of this, both companies became highly protective of their chocolate-making processes. It was a combination of this secrecy and the elaborate, often gigantic, machines in the factory that inspired Dahl to write the story. 11-year-old Charlie Bucket lives in poverty in a small house with his parents and four grandparents. His grandparents share the only bed in the house, located in the only bedroom. Charlie and his parents sleep on mattresses on the floor. One day, Grandpa Joe tells him about the legendary and eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka and all the wonderful candies he made until the other candymakers sent"
"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"
"Charlie Bucket searching for valuables in a dump near his home. As he picks up candy wrappers, he speaks with a mysterious tramp, and heads home to his family (""Almost Nearly Perfect""). His home is a one-room shack under a railway arch. As he and his grandparents wait for their cabbage soup to boil, they tell Charlie about Willy Wonka (""The Amazing Tale of Mr. Willy Wonka""). After Charlie's father returns home dispirited from lack of work Charlie's mother tries to lift his spirits by saying he will find work when the parents begin singing about Charlie and what they"
"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."
"with. He had previously produced another of the author's adaptations with ""James and the Giant Peach"" (1996), and, like Roald and Liccy, disliked the 1971 film because it strayed from the book's storyline. During pre-production Burton visited Dahl's former home in the Buckinghamshire village of Great Missenden. Liccy Dahl remembers Burton entering Dahl's famed writing shed and saying, ""This is the Buckets' house!"" and thinking to herself, ""Thank God, somebody gets it."" Liccy also showed Burton the original handwritten manuscripts, which Burton discovered were more politically incorrect than the published book. The manuscripts included a child named Herpes, after the"
"is already shaken by her arrival in a girls' boarding school when she finds herself waking as another girl in the same bed, but decades earlier. Closer to reality, Jenny in ""No One Must Know"" (1962) by Barbara Sleigh is a newcomer in the street who faces a landlord's pet ban. She needs urgent help from nearby children to hide her cat and kittens. Roald Dahl rose to prominence with his children's fantasy novels, often inspired from experiences from his childhood, with often unexpected endings, and unsentimental, dark humour. Dahl was inspired to write ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" (1964),"
"Grandfather and the voice of Phoenix, and Dee Wallace as Mother. The Phoenix and the Carpet The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children, written by E. Nesbit and first published in 1904. It is the second in a trilogy of novels that begins with ""Five Children and It"" (1902), and follows the adventures of the same five children: Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and the Lamb. Their mother buys the children a new carpet to replace one from the nursery that they have destroyed in an accidental fire. The children find an egg in the carpet, which"
"this heartwarming series ran until late 1961. The stories were characterized by the philosophical musings of the ""Old Man"", who was modeled after both of Ruark's grandfathers, but mostly on Captain Edward ""Ned"" Hall Adkins, Ruark's maternal grandfather. In the stories, young Bob Ruark grows up hunting and fishing in coastal North Carolina, always guided by the Old Man. However, the pain of his parents' difficult domestic life and his relatively few childhood friends (Ruark, something of a child prodigy in school, was a loner) are tellingly absent from the narratives. Many of the stories were collected into a book"
"Zealand), the BFG writes a book of their adventures identified as the novel itself—under the name ""Roald Dahl"". The BFG first appears as a story told to Danny by his father in ""Danny, the Champion of the World"". The ending is almost the same as ""James and the Giant Peach"", when he writes a story about himself, by himself. Also, Mr. Tibbs relates to Mrs. Tibbs, the friend of Mr. Gilligrass, the U.S. president in ""Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator"". ""The BFG"" has won numerous awards including the 1985 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis as the year's best children's book, in its"
"Roald Dahl bibliography Roald Dahl (1916–1990) was a British author and scriptwriter, and ""the most popular writer of children's books since Enid Blyton"", according to Philip Howard, the literary editor of ""The Times"". The death of an elder sister and his father within a few months when he was three gave his writing ""a black savagery"". He was raised by his Norwegian mother, who took him on annual trips to Norway, where she told him the stories of trolls and witches present in the dark Scandinavian fables. Dahl was influenced by the stories, and returned to many of the themes"
"several of his stories. His first children's novel, ""James and the Giant Peach"", was published in 1961, which was followed, along with others, by ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" (1964), ""Fantastic Mr Fox"" (1970), ""Danny, the Champion of the World"" (1975), ""The BFG"" (1982) and ""Matilda"" in 1988. Dahl's first script was for a stage work, ""The Honeys"", which appeared on Broadway in 1955. He followed this with a television script, ""Lamb to the Slaughter"", for the ""Alfred Hitchcock Presents"" series. He also co-wrote screenplays for film, including for ""You Only Live Twice"" (1967) and ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"" (1968)."
"long, perfectly waved platinum-blond hair and her pink feather boa, looks like a pretty and inert doll—"" The article continues: ""And if the Stepford daughter on the cover is meant to remind us of Veruca Salt or Violet Beauregarde, she doesn't: those badly behaved squirts are bubbling over with rude life."" Moreover, writes Talbot, ""The Modern Classics cover has not a whiff of this validation of childish imagination; instead, it seems to imply a deviant adult audience."" Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story features"
"The BFG The BFG (short for The Big Friendly Giant) is a 1982 children's book written by British novelist Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. It is an expansion of a short story from Dahl's 1975 book ""Danny, the Champion of the World"". The book is dedicated to Dahl's late daughter, Olivia, who died of measles encephalitis at the age of seven in 1962. As of 2009, the novel has sold 37 million copies in UK editions alone, with more than 1 million copies sold around the world every year. An animated adaptation was shown on television in 1989"
"Man from the South ""Man from the South"" is a short story by Roald Dahl originally published in ""Collier's"" in 1948. It has been adapted several times for television and film, including a 1960 version starring Steve McQueen and Peter Lorre. While vacationing at a resort in Jamaica, the narrator encounters an elderly South American man named Carlos. They are soon joined by a young American naval cadet, who boasts about the reliability of his cigarette lighter. Carlos offers to bet his Cadillac against the American's left little finger that the American cannot ignite the lighter ten times in a"
"as Mrs. Fox, Henry Grant Kerswell, Peter Kent and John Lofthouse as Farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean. Fantastic Mr Fox Fantastic Mr Fox is a children's novel written by British author Roald Dahl. It was published in 1970, by George Allen & Unwin in the UK and Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S., with illustrations by Donald Chaffin. The first U.K. Puffin paperback, first issued in 1974, featured illustrations by Jill Bennett. Later editions have featured illustrations by Tony Ross (1988) and Quentin Blake (1996). The story is about Mr. Fox and how he outwits his farmer neighbours to steal"
"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"
"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"
"adaptation of the book of the same name by Roald Dahl. Starring Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka, Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket and Deep Roy as the Oompa-Loompas, the film generally took a more faithful approach to the source material than the 1971 adaptation, ""Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"", although some liberties were taken, such as adding Wonka's issue with his father (played by Christopher Lee). ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" was later nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. The film made over $207 million domestically. Filming proved difficult as Burton, Depp, and Danny Elfman had"
"The Bookseller (short story) ""The Bookseller"" is a short story by Roald Dahl. It was first published in the January 1987 issue of ""Playboy"". London bookseller William Buggage and his assistant, Miss Tottle, have been swindling the widows of prominent men by sending fake invoices for pornographic literature supposedly purchased by their recently deceased husbands. The embarrassed widows pay the bill to avoid a public scandal. Buggage is foiled when one of his intended victims points out that her late husband was actually blind. Dahl's biographer, Jeremy Treglown, states that Dahl took the plot of ""The Bookseller"" from ""Clerical Error"""
"has never been adapted on a visual medium; however it was adapted for audio by Puffin Audio Books starring Neil Answych as Charlie Bucket and Gordan Fairclough as Willy Wonka. Dahl began writing a third book in the series, titled ""Charlie in the White House"", but did not complete it. The story picks up immediately where the previous book left off, with Charlie and his whole family aboard the flying Great Glass Elevator. The Elevator goes into orbit by accident, where Mr Wonka docks them at the U.S. Space Hotel. Shortly after their arrival, the hotel's elevators open, revealing man-eating"
"unforgettable bit of biting nonsense"". The Great Automatic Grammatizator The Great Automatic Grammatizator (published in the U.S. as The Umbrella Man and Other Stories) is a collection of thirteen short stories written by British author Roald Dahl. The stories were selected for teenagers from Dahl's adult works. All the stories included were published elsewhere originally; their sources are noted below. The stories, with the exception of the war story ""Katina"", possess a deadpan, ironic, bizarre, or even macabre sense of humor. They generally end with unexpected plot twists. Groff Conklin in 1954 called the short story ""The Great Automatic Grammatizator"""
"cards and a doll's tea party. Numerous clues in both works suggest a more serious message about broken marriage hopes and loss but the full facts are not known. ""The Cholmondeley Family"" of 1732 also included similar ingredients of impending disaster as a playful child goes to push over a pile of books while the older generation sit by, frozen, to be reanimated when the books fall. But in this work it is the mother who is included despite having died prior. Well stocked bookcases line the background which the adults can use to civilise the wild children. The Graham"
"the UK version was revised slightly to elaborate on the ultimate disappearance of the Gremlins. , the work has never been reprinted in English, although a Dutch translation (""Ooit en te nimmer"") has run through several editions. Some Time Never: A Fable for Supermen Some Time Never: A Fable for Supermen is a 1948 book by Roald Dahl, his first adult novel. Dahl began writing it after editor Maxwell Perkins expressed an interest in publishing a novel length book if Dahl were to write it. The book was met with predominantly poor reception and was considered to be a failure,"
"Harald Dahl had two children by his first wife, Marie, who died shortly after the birth of their second child. He then married Sofie Magdalene Hesselberg, Roald's mother. Harald was considerably older than Sofie; he was born in 1863 and she was born in 1885. By the time Roald Dahl was born in 1916, his father was 53 years old. When Roald was three years old, his seven-year-old sister Astri died of an infection from a burst appendix. Only weeks later, Roald's father died of pneumonia. As narrator, Dahl suggests his father died of grief from the loss of his"
"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 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Wonka has hidden five Golden Tickets inside chocolate bars, with the finders being rewarded with a tour of his factory and a promise of a lifetimes supply of chocolate, throughout the tour four of the children, with Charlie Bucket being left as the winner. At this point Wonka reveals that the real prize is the factory, as Wonka needs someone to take over the"
"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"
"they should join forces against a common enemy, Hitler and the Nazis, rather than fight each other. Eventually, the gremlins are re-trained by the Royal Air Force to repair rather than sabotage aircraft, and restore Gus to active flight status after a particularly severe crash. The book also contains picturesque details about the ordinary lives of gremlins: baby gremlins, for instance, are known as widgets, and females as fifinellas, a name taken from the great ""flying"" filly racehorse Fifinella, that won both The Derby and Epsom Oaks in 1916, the year Dahl was born. The publication of ""The Gremlins"" by"
"Some Time Never: A Fable for Supermen Some Time Never: A Fable for Supermen is a 1948 book by Roald Dahl, his first adult novel. Dahl began writing it after editor Maxwell Perkins expressed an interest in publishing a novel length book if Dahl were to write it. The book was met with predominantly poor reception and was considered to be a failure, although it is historically noteworthy as the first novel about nuclear war to be published in the United States after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The story is a darker take on the same premise"
"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."
"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"
"(the illustration shows him smiling with a book in his hands). This is also how the BFG ended. In both cases, the recounted stories are purported to be the books themselves . A television adaptation of the novel appeared on BBC One on December 28, 1976. Paul Stone directed a script by Trever Preston. The cast included Simon Bell playing James, Bernard Cribbins playing Centipede, and Anna Quayle playing Aunt Spiker. Though Roald Dahl declined numerous offers during his lifetime to have a film version of ""James and the Giant Peach"" produced, his widow, Liccy Dahl, approved an offer to"
"the strip progressed, the children aged, but not at the same rate. For writing and humor purposes, Toby landed at age 15, and Eddie at age 6. Francis Denver ""Bronco"" Bucket - Born in 1928, he attended his high schools 50th anniversary in 1996. He's Larry's father, and grandfather to Toby and Eddie. He's your typical crotchety old man - rough to his adult kids, and friends, but usually soft and gentle to his grandsons. He lives in the house with his son, daughter-in-law, and grandsons.<br> Larry Bucket - The Father of the house. He's your typical dim-witted, loving, hardworking"