Relevant to the interests of both Roald Dahl fans and anybody dying to see Wolf Hall star Mark Rylance as a computer-generated giant with large ears, it’s the full trailer for Disney’s adaptation of The BFG!
A previously unpublished Beatrix Potter tale—The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots—is set to hit bookstores in September, and it’s already climbing to the top of the Amazon charts in the U.K. People just can’t get enough whimsically sentient animals from the English countryside!
The film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG—one of the greatest children’s books of all time—is headed for the big screen in 2016. The first official trailer takes a dark approach, showing young heroine Sophie creeping around her orphanage at the witching hour and being snatched from her bed by the hand of a (big)…
Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is one of the most iconic and beloved books, despite Tim Burton and Johnny Depp's effort. Now, a chapter entitled "The Vanilla Fudge Room" that did not make the cut to the final draft has been released, and it is delightfully dark as expected.
'Tis the season for the gooey, sickeningly sweet treat — which is perhaps the most polarizing candy ever known. Somehow it manages to be both utterly disgusting and utterly irresistible. Yes, it's complicated.
[Great Missenden, England, August 17. Josie Griffiths Adrianna Bertola and Kerry Ingram pose for pictures at the home of the late author Roald Dahl.]
According to a new authorized biography, Roald Dahl was quite the dashing womanizer in his day, seducing socialites while working as a spy for the British government. [Telegraph]
Critics have been increasingly disenchanted with Wes Anderson's films, but in Fantastic Mr. Fox, painstakingly slow stop-motion animation allowed him to create his signature storybook feel, while also allowing George Clooney and Meryl Streep to turn in lively performances.
Today is Roald Dahl Day! So bake yourself a chocolate cake and eat it, Bruce Bogtrotter style, just to stick it to the Trunchbulls of the world. Or just stop by the official site for all things Dahl. Splendiferous! [RoaldDahlDay]
The 1945 Roald Dahl short-story classic involving but not limited to a turtle, a yogi, and a terrible swan song.
A cache of hundreds of Roald Dahl's letters have come to light - but from where? Says the author's biographer, "The guy who owns the letters is old and very keen to stay out of the limelight." Mystery! [Telegraph]
Check out this awesome tour of Roald Dahl's "writing hut" in Buckinghamshire. It's where he wrote all his classic children's books, and was, one assumes, misanthropic. [via BoingBoing]
NPR's "Morning Edition" ran a segment this morning on what a groundbreaking work of young adult fiction Harriet the Spy was when it debuted in 1964. According to NPR correspondent Neva Grant, heroine Harriet M. Welsch was considered controversial because "Harriet saw too much, said too much. She even had to see a…
