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Roald Dahl: Giant Peach
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As a child, Dahl was constantly getting into trouble with his schoolmasters, and he would spend most of his afternoons gazing through the windows of a local candy store. To his sorrow, they would never let him in, because Dahl was a giant with telekinetic powers and ... the candy store was really a front for a coven of child-eating witches. Still, these afternoons served as the basis of some of Dahl's later books. Books he eventually penned as a much smaller adult. All of this is TRUE
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"Parents and schoolteachers are the enemy," Dahl once said. "The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that when it is born is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all." In WITCHES (1973) behind the mask of a beautiful woman is an ugly witch, and in MATILDA (1988) Miss Turnbull throws children out of windows. Both parents are eaten in JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH (1961), but the real enemies of the hero of the story, a little boy, are two aunts.
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Roald Dahl’s first novel for children was not, as many suppose, James and the Giant Peach but The Gremlins, which was published in 1943 and adapted from a script written for Disney. Dahl went on to write several film scripts, including the James Bond adventure You Only Live Twice and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. He disliked many of the film adaptions of his own work which appeared in his lifetime.
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