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Have each student write his or her name in the space provided, color in the character, and parents were Norwegian, and he was the only son of a second thread wool, ribbons, or string with beads through holes punched out at the top of each bookmark. marriage. His father, Harald, and elder sister, Astri, died when Roald was just three, leaving his mother, Sofie, to raise two stepchildren and her own four children by herself. Young Roald loved stories and books. His mother told Roald and his sisters tales about trolls and other mythical Norwegian creatures. His father was a tremendous diary writer. Roald himself kept a secret diary from the age of eight. Roald was thirteen when he started at Repton, a famous public school in Derbyshire, England. He excelled at sports but was deemed by his English master to be “quite incapable of marshalling his thoughts on Fantastic Willy Wonka The BFG Matilda paper.” There was one huge advantage to going to Repton. The school Mr. Fox was close to Cadbury’s, one of England’s most famous chocolate factories and one which regularly involved the schoolboys in testing new varieties of chocolate bars. At eighteen, rather than going to university, Roald joined the Public Schools’ Exploring Society’s expedition to Newfoundland. He then started to work for the Shell Company as a salesman in Dar es Salaam in Africa. At twenty-three, when World War II broke out, Roald signed up with the Royal Air Force in Nairobi, where he was accepted as a pilot officer. Eventually, he was sent home as an invalid, but transferred, in 1942, to Washington, D.C., as an air attaché. In 1942, during his time in Washington, author C. S. Forester, who was in America to publicize the British war effort, asked Roald to describe his version of the war, which Forester would write up for The Saturday Evening Post. Ten days after receiving Roald’s written account, Forester wrote back, “Did you know you were a writer? I haven’t changed a word.” The piece appeared anonymously in The Post in August 1942 under the title “Shot Down Over Libya.” Roald’s career as a children’s book author did not begin in earnest until the 1960s, after he had become a father himself (to five children!). In the meantime, he devoted himself to writing short stories for adults. Settled with his family in Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire, England, at Gipsy House, he wrote most of his unforgettable stories in a small hut at the bottom of a garden. Roald first became interested in writing children’s books by making up bedtime stories for his daughters Olivia and Tessa. This was how James and the Giant Peach came into being. His second book was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which went on to achieve phenomenal success all over the world. : : : : This bookmark belongs to This bookmark belongs to This bookmark belongs to This bookmark belongs to Roald Dahl passed away on November 23, 1990, at the age of seventy-four. Since his death, his books have more than maintained their popularity. Total sales of the United Kingdom editions are around 50 million, with millions more sold every year.