What Are Some Of Roald Dahl's More Popular Books?

British novelist and children's author Roald Dahl was the creator of some of the world's most loved stories.  Roald Dahl, published for the first time in 1942, was the genius behind stories still read by children today.  "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "Matilda", "James and the Giant Peach", "The Witches" and "The BFG" were all written by Roald Dahl.  Born on September 13th 1916, Roald Dahl began his writing career, in 1942, with his very first published piece "Shot Down Over Libya" telling his story of a plane crash he had managed to survive, although blinding him temporarily, while flying for the Royal Air Force, in 1940, during World War II.  Aswell as children's stories, Roald Dahl also captured the imagination of adults everywhere in novels such as his 1979 book "My Uncle Oswald".   Roald Dahl died at the age of seventy-four, after battling leukemia, on 23rd November 1990.

Some of his most popular books are Charlie and the chocolate factory, which is about a boy called Charlie bucket who goes to the best factory in the world. James and the Giant peach, which is about a boy called James who befriends giant insects and escapes from his cruel aunts in a large peachfruit. Matilda,which is about a girl who is a genius but has mean parents and goes to a school run by a lunatic, and Georges marvellous medicine, which is about a boy who makes a very strange medicine for his grandmother. But I recommend 'skin and other stories', especially Galloping Foxley.