In 1990, the Redgrave Theatre in Farnham produced a musical version, adapted by Rony Robinson with music by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley, which toured the UK. He wrote about many happy memories from those visits in Boy: Tales of Childhood, such as when he replaced the tobacco in his half-sister's fiancé's pipe with goat droppings. Survey reveals 50 books that every child should read by 16" Archived 13 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine. Throughout his childhood and adolescent years, Dahl spent most of his summer holidays with his mother's family in Norway.

The next Dahl adaptation for Netflix, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, was released in September 2023, with its director Wes Anderson announcing that he would also adapt three additional Dahl short stories for Netflix. Roald Dahl died on 23 November 1990, at the age of 74 of a rare cancer of the blood, myelodysplastic syndrome, in Oxford, [150] and was buried in the cemetery at the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England. On the final leg, he could not find the airstrip and, running low on fuel and with night approaching, he was forced to attempt a landing in the desert.His three Edgar Awards were given for: in 1954, the collection Someone Like You; in 1959, the story " The Landlady"; and in 1980, the episode of Tales of the Unexpected based on " Skin". Actress Scarlett Johansson named Fantastic Mr Fox one of the five books that made a difference to her.

One of Miss Trunchbull's punishments is to force an overweight child, Bruce Bogtrotter, to eat an enormous chocolate cake, which makes him so full that he cannot move. In 2017, the airline Norwegian announced Dahl's image would appear on the tail fin one of their Boeing 737-800 aircraft. It is most likely that he scored more than those victories during 20 April 1941, when 22 German aircraft were shot down. The scholar argues that the book showcases a treatment of children that is not actually worse than historical and modern examples; however, Dahl’s determination to expose to his young readers the truth can be controversial.

Dahl's biographer Jeremy Treglown went through the author's documents, including the drafts for the novel, and noted that the American editor Stephen Roxburgh at Farrar, Straus and Giroux had been instrumental in reshaping the story. In a memoir, Dahl recounts in detail an attack by him and his fellow Hurricane pilots on the Vichy-held Rayak airfield. Dahl explains in his autobiography Going Solo that only three young Englishmen ran the Shell company in the territory, of which he was the youngest and junior. self-published source] This tertiary source reuses information from other sources but does not name them.

She also tells him about the mysterious Grand High Witch of All the World, the feared and diabolical leader of all of the world's witches, who visits their councils in every country, each year. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover—to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life he most admires. It was the editor's idea to make Matilda an innocent child who loved books, with her powers manifesting as a result of abuse she endured.

She said her father later told her that if they had simply said goodnight after a bedtime story, he assumed it wasn't a good idea. Although not a commercial success, it received critical acclaim at the time of its release, and on Rotten Tomatoes has a score of 90% based on reviews from 21 critics. Aces High: A Tribute to the Most Notable Fighter Pilots of the British and Commonwealth Forces of WWII.