Roald Dahl

1. Introducing...
Roald
Dahl

2. Which Books Have You
Read?

6. The Writing Hut
“But this was not for entertaining guests or talking
over ideas. His writing space was dedicated to
writing – and absolutely nothing else – and
everything was engineered around that singular
purpose. The back on his battered wingback chair
was specially hollowed out to give more comfort
to his bad back, a writing board he had made
himself from wood and green baize sat across its
arms, and an electric heater hung directly
overhead. If he needed extra warmth he even had
a rug and sleeping bag to put over his legs. When
writing he kept the curtains closed so that nothing,
not even sunlight, could interfere with the creative
process. It wasn’t so much a dedicated writing
space as a dedicated writing bunker. A writing
Batcave.
Among the strange objects were a piece of his
own hip bone that had been removed, some
preserved spinal shavings from his own spine, and
several fossils. My favourite is the big foil ball he’d
created over the years from the Cadbury’s metal
foil chocolate wrappers he’d kept from his lunch.
As well as the the weird there was the more
normal: old photos, bookmarks drawn specially for
him by Quentin Blake, magazines and letters of
correspondence.”

9. How do you create characters?
Click the picture to listen to an interview with Roald Dahl

11. from Matilda

12. from James and the Giant
Peach

19. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory:

20. How many
chocolate
manufacturers
can you name?
Brain Break #1