Danny, the Champion of the World is a children's novel by Roald Dahl which revolves around Danny's relationship with his father and the efforts of the father-son team to poach pheasants from the cruel Mr. Hazell. Danny, the Champion of the World examines critical themes relating to parenthood and childhood, such as Dahl's arguments that single fathers can raise children just as well as single mothers, and that children must be exposed to the real world at an early age.
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A writer of both children's fiction and short stories for adults, Roald Dahl (1916-1990) is best known as the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the story of a poor boy who because of his ho...
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Roald Dahl was flying over the African desert for the Royal Air Force during World War II when he was forced to make an emergency landing. He wrote in his first short story, "A Piece of Cake," "I reme...
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Roald Dahl began his career as a short-story writer after suffering through the horrors of severe canings and other punishments in oppressive British schools during the 1920s and 1930s and after endur...
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Roald Dahl was one of the most successful writers of children's books ever, both in terms of copies sold and money made. Ten months before his death, the five top-selling children's books in Britain w...
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