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September 13 marks the birthday of the famous Welsh novelist and short story writer, Roald Dahl, who passed away on November 23, 1990.

You may know him best for his children’s books, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and Matilda, but did you also know that he was the screenwriter of the Bond film You Only Live Twice and Disney’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? Dahl also wrote some adult fiction and short stories as well.

If you haven’t yet read any of Roald Dahl’s work here is a good place to start.

Sometime Never: A Fable for Supermen,My Uncle Oswald,Over To You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying,Someone Like You,Kiss Kiss,Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl,Tales of the Unexpected,Switch Bitch,More Tales of the Unexpected,The Best of Roald Dahl,Roald Dahl’s Book of Ghost Stories Edited with an introduction by Dahl,Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl,The Collected Short Stories of Dahl,Two Fables “Princess and the Poacher” and “Princess Mammalia”,The Great Automatic Grammatizator,Skin And Other Stories,Roald Dahl: Collected Stories,The Gremlins,James and the Giant Peach — Film: James and the Giant Peach,Charlie and the Chocolate Factory — Films: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,The Magic Finger,Fantastic Mr Fox — Film: Fantastic Mr Fox,Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator A sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,Danny the Champion of the World — Film: Danny the Champion of the World,The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More,The Enormous Crocodile,The Twits,George’s Marvelous Medicine,The BFG — Film: The BFG,The Witches — Film: The Witches,The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me,Matilda — Film: Matilda,Esio Trot,The Minpins,The Vicar of Nibbleswicke,Revolting Rhymes,Dirty Beasts,Rhyme Stew

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