Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff, South Wales on 13th September 1916.  His father died when he was four years old.  He had four brothers and sisters all together.  They were called Alfhild, Else, Asta and Astri.  He was the only boy.  His favourite music was by Beethoven.  On 1945 he married a lady called Patrica Neal who was an actress in England on July 2nd 1953.  Just 30 years later they got divorced.  They had five children.  He went to school in England before working at the Shell Oil Company in Africa at the age of 13 for four years in 1938.  On 1939 he joined the Royal Air force.  He began writing after a big bash on the head while being a RAF fighter pilot during the Second World War.  At the age of 26 he moved to Washington D.C.  In 1990 he began to write for children while living with is parents in England.
 
 

Quentin Blake was born in London in 1932.  He read English at Cambridge, and did a postgraduate certificate in education at London University.  From 1949 he worked as a cartoonist for many magazines.  He was head of the illustration department at the Royal Collage of Art and is now a visiting Professor.  Quentin Blake was awarded the OBE in 1988.

This book is about a girl named Matilda who when her principle (Miss Trunchbull) attacks her she discovers she has amazing powers.  The next day she tells Miss Honey (her teacher) what she has found out.  Then after school that day Matilda goes to Miss Honeys house.  Together they go inside Miss Trunchbull’s house (Miss Honey's mean aunt) and sees all of her old treasures, like her doll and pictures.  Late at night the next day Matilda goes to Miss Trunchbull’s house and gets the doll.  When her mum tells her they are leaving to Taiwan she asks if she can stay with her because her parents are so mean to her.  They say fine and go to Taiwan.
 
 

George is alone in the house with his grandma who is horrid and cruel to him.  So when she calls him to give her the medicine he puts something in a bit different.  He goes searching around the house looking for all sorts of things, from curry sauce to shampoo and oil to face cream.  Then when he gives it to her she turns into all the things you cold possibly think of.  An amazing story everyone should read.
 
 

James has been living with his Aunt sponge and Aunt Spiker since his father and mother died by getting eaten by a rhinoceros.  Then one night he sneaks out and meats a man.  The man gives him these green things and tells him if you do what I say these will make your life as happy as ever.  But on the way back to the house he drops them and they go every where.  The next day he and the aunts see the peach growing on the tree.  It gets bigger and bigger and the next day he climbs in the peach and meats all different types of insects.  He makes friends with them and go on an exciting adventure.
 
 

Roald Dahl died on 23rd November 1990 in Oxford, England.  His oldest sister called Astri died in 1920 of appendicitis.  His Father died just a few months later from Pneumonia.  On November 17th Dahl’s daughter Olivia died from measles encephalitis.

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