One night when she cannot sleep, and despite the orders of the cruel disciplinarian orphanage owner Mrs Clonkers, she gets out of bed and looks out of the window over the deserted London streets. Sophie is an eight-year-old orphaned girl who lives in an children’s home with several other girls.
In 1982 he published The BFG (The Big Friendly Giant) as a full children’s novel, with a short version of it originally being told as a bedtime story in the 1975 children’s book Danny, Champion of the World. His scrumdiddliumtious tales are still delighting readers today, long after his death in 1990.
He was a master storyteller who has been delighting children and adults alike with his writing for decades (his books have sold upwards of 250 million copies worldwide). Roald Dahl was a GIANT of an author as well as a man, being 6ft 6” (1.98m) tall.
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