Roald+Dahl

=**Roald Dahl** =

**By: Emily O.﻿**
**Born: September 13, 1916 Llandaff, South Wales Died: November 23, 1990 Oxford, England** 

 Biography:
==== Roald Dahl was born September 13, 1916, in Llandaff, South Wales, United Kingdom, to Norwegian parents. After his father died when Dahl was only four, his mother followed her late husband's wish that Dahl be sent to English schools. Dahl first attended Llandaff Cathedral School, where he began a series of unfortunate adventures in school. Because of this, Dahl's mother moved him to St. Peter's Boarding School and later to Repton, an excellent private school. Though not a good student, his mother nevertheless offered him the option of attending Oxford or Cambridge University when he finished school. He declined this opportunity. ==== ====After graduating from Repton, Dahl took worked in many positions that took him around the gloabe. Dahl suffered severe head injuries in a plane crash near Alexandria, Egypt. Upon recovering he was sent to Washington, D.C. There Dahl began his writing career, publishing a short story in the //Saturday Evening Post.// His stories appeared in many other magazines. Like Dahl said, "as I went on, the stories became less and less realistic and more fantastic. But becoming a writer was pure fluke. Without being asked to, I doubt if I'd ever have thought of it." ==== ==== Dahl’s love for writing and poetry began to grow. He began to write many poems and stories. His most famous stories are //James and the Giant Peach//, //Charlie and the Chocolate Factory//, and //Matilda//. He has written numerous poems, many of which are based off of his books, including //Mike Teavee//... and //Augustus Gloop! Augustus Gloop//. Roald did all his writing in a little hut at the bottom of his garden. It was rather scruffy, with an old armchair, but he liked the peace and went there for hours every day. He carried on writing right up until he died in 1990. ====

Accomplishments:
 While Dahl never did receive awards for his poetry he won awards for other accomplishments in his life. Dahl received three Edgar Allan Poe Awards (1954, 1959, 1980). In 1982 he won a literary prize for the book THE BFG. In 1983 he received World Fantasy Convention Lifetime Achievement award.

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Poems:
Roald Dahl wrote over 20 poems. These include:

Mike Teavee.....
 The most important thing we've learned, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> So far as children are concerned, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Is never, NEVER, NEVER let <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Them near your television set -- <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Or better still, just don't install <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> The idiotic thing at all. <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> In almost every house we've been, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> We've watched them gaping at the screen. <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> They loll and slop and lounge about, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> And stare until their eyes pop out. <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> (Last week in someone's place we saw <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> A dozen eyeballs on the floor.) <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> They sit and stare and stare and sit <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Until they're hypnotised by it, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Until they're absolutely drunk <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> With all that shocking ghastly junk. <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Oh yes, we know it keeps them still, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> They don't climb out the window sill, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> They never fight or kick or punch, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> They leave you free to cook the lunch <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> And wash the dishes in the sink -- <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> But did you ever stop to think, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> To wonder just exactly what <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> This does to your beloved tot? <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> IT ROTS THE SENSE IN THE HEAD! <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD! <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND! <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND! <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE! <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE! <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> HE CANNOT THINK -- HE ONLY SEES! <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> 'All right!' you'll cry. 'All right!' you'll say, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> 'But if we take the set away, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> What shall we do to entertain <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Our darling children? Please explain!' <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> We'll answer this by asking you, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> 'What used the darling ones to do? <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> 'How used they keep themselves contented <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Before this monster was invented?' <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Have you forgotten? Don't you know? <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> We'll say it very loud and slow: <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> THEY ... USED ... TO ... READ! They'd READ and READ, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> AND READ and READ, and then proceed <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> To READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks! <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> One half their lives was reading books! <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> The nursery shelves held books galore! <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Books cluttered up the nursery floor! <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> And in the bedroom, by the bed, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> More books were waiting to be read! <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Such wondrous, fine, fantastic tales <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Of dragons, gypsies, queens, and whales <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> And treasure isles, and distant shores <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Where smugglers rowed with muffled oars, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> And pirates wearing purple pants, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> And sailing ships and elephants, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> And cannibals crouching 'round the pot, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Stirring away at something hot. <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> (It smells so good, what can it be? <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Good gracious, it's Penelope.) <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> The younger ones had Beatrix Potter <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> With Mr. Tod, the dirty rotter, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> And Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> And Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and- <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Just How The Camel Got His Hump, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> And How the Monkey Lost His Rump, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> And Mr. Toad, and bless my soul, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> There's Mr. Rat and Mr. Mole- <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Oh, books, what books they used to know, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Those children living long ago! <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Go throw your TV set away, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> And in its place you can install <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> A lovely bookshelf on the wall. <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Then fill the shelves with lots of books, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Ignoring all the dirty looks, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> The screams and yells, the bites and kicks, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> And children hitting you with sticks- <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Fear not, because we promise you <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> That, in about a week or two <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Of having nothing else to do, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> They'll now begin to feel the need <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Of having something to read. <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> And once they start -- oh boy, oh boy! <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> You watch the slowly growing joy <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> That fills their hearts. They'll grow so keen <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> They'll wonder what they'd ever seen <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> In that ridiculous machine, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> That nauseating, foul, unclean, <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Repulsive television screen! <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> And later, each and every kid <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Will love you more for what you did.

<span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**I've got the Golden Ticket**
<span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">I never thought my life could be <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Anything but catastrophe <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> But suddenly I begin to see <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> A bit of good luck for me

<span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> 'Cause I've got a golden ticket <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> I've got a golden twinkle in my eye

<span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> I never had a chance to shine <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Never a happy song to sing <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> But suddenly half the world is mine <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> What an amazing thing

<span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> 'Cause I've got a golden ticket <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> It's ours, Charlie <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> I've got a golden sun up in the sky

<span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> I never thought I'd see the day <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> When I would face the world and say <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Good morning, look at the sun <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> I never thought that I would be <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Slap in the lap of luxury' <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Cause I'd have said it couldn't be done <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> But it can be done

<span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> I never dreamed that I would climb <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Over the moon in ecstasy <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> But nevertheless, it's there that I'm <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Shortly about to be

<span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> 'Cause I've got a golden ticket <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> I've got a golden chance to make my way <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> And with a golden ticket, it's a golden day

<span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Good morning, look at the sun' <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Cause I'd have said it couldn't be done <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> But it can be done

<span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> I never dreamed that I would climb <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Over the moon in ecstasy <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> But nevertheless, it's there that I'm <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Shortly about to be

<span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> 'Cause I've got a golden ticket' <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> Cause I've got a golden ticket <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> I've got a golden chance to make my way <span style="color: #ec00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> And with a golden ticket, it's a golden day