Matilda by Roald Dahl "It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers ... so building even the tiniest of labyrinths had to be ...

Roald Dahl has taken London by storm. At the same time that a musical based on his children’s book Matilda runs at the Cambridge Theatre in Covent Garden, Mark Rosenblatt’s Giant, a semi ...

As a kid, I loved Roald Dahl. And, when I say "loved," I mean loved. By the time I was six, I'd read every children's book he'd ever written (my favorite, then as now, was Matilda), plus his two ...

New editions of classic 20th century children’s books by British author Roald Dahl – such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The Witches and Fantastic Mr ...

An iconic Roald Dahl character takes centre stage in the first supermarket Christmas advert of the year, released by Sainsbury’s. The BFG, the 24-foot-tall friendly giant known for being part of ...

Perhaps, in the squeamish spirit of the times, the Royal Court Theatre in London should have put on two versions of “Giant”, a blistering new play about Roald Dahl—one that quoted his ...

Roald Dahl wrote some of Britain’s most beloved children’s books, sprinkled with magical characters like “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” “Matilda,” and “Danny, the Champion of the World.” ...

I telephone Dahl, played by Lithgow, my voice is played by the marvellous actor Richard Hope, and for 10 minutes on the speakerphone Roald Dahl and I argue and debate. Then the play ends.

But what happens if that profession is the villain? In “Fantastic Mr Fox”, Roald Dahl introduces the farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean who are “as nasty and mean as any men you could meet”.

Books by Dahl including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, Fantastic Mr Fox, and The Witches, have reportedly had passages edited to remove specific ...