Roald Dahl: The Witches

We will read the wonderful book "The Witches" by Roald Dahl. 

It´s a very interesting book and useful too- we´ll learn how to identify and recognise witches before it´s too late-  hahahahahaha. 

Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. His books continue to be bestsellers, despite his death in 1990! 

Quentin Blake is one of the best-known and best-loved children's illustrators and it's impossible now to think of Roald Dahl's writings without imagining Quentin Blake's illustrations.

We´ll read the admirable, amazing, awesome, brilliant, cool, enjoyable, excellent, fabulous, fantastic, magnificent and marvelous book THE WITCHES!!!

Click on the picture below to listen to the recording of the first chapter. You´ll love it!!!!!

 CLICK HERE!!!!!

You can visit his official website by clicking below:
http://www.roalddahl.com/

PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH:  Cardiff, 13 September 1916

DIED:  1990

FAVOURITE BOOK:  Mr Midshipman Easy

MOST TREASURED POSSESSION:  A red, forty-year-old exercise book, which he wrote his ideas in.

FAVOURITE MUSIC:  Beethoven

FAVOURITE T.V. PROGRAMME:  The News

FAVOURITE SMELL:  Bacon frying

Roald Dahl's tips to becoming a good author.

These are just some of the hints Roald Dahl wrote down for anyone who would like to become a successful author.

1. You should have a lively imagination.

2. You should be able to write well. By this I mean you should be able to make a scene come alive in the reader's mind. Not everybody has this ability. It is a gift, and you either have it or you don't.

3. You must have stamina. In other words, you must be able to stick to what you are doing and never give up, for hour after hour, day after day, week after week and month after month.

If he hadn't been a writer what might Roald Dahl have been?

Roald Dahl once said that if he had been able to stay on at school 'I'd have studied and become a doctor'. Luckily for us he didn't! It would have been terrible if Roald Dahl had never started writing! Imagine a world without Charlie and his Chocolate Factory, without the BFG, or without the horrible Miss Trunchbull!

Extracted from http://www.puffin.co.uk/index.html