THE TWITS - THE ROALD DAHL CLASSIC COLLECTION - ROALD DAHL -

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Editorial	PENGUIN
Edad	a partir de 11 años
Idioma	Inglés Internacional
Autor	DAHL ROALD
ISBN	9780241677650
Peso ( kg )	0,101
Tipo	Soporte Físico
Año de edición	2024
Formato	TAPA RUSTICA
Sinopsis	THE TWITS - THE ROALD DAHL CLASSIC COLLECTION Roald Dahl's canon of family stories and poetry with collectable new covers featuring Quentin Blake's iconic illustrations and archive material provided by the Roald Dahl Museum. Mr Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever. This beautiful edition of The Twits, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the Roald Dahl Museum and is perfect for Dahl fans old and new. So, enter a world where invention and mischief can be found on every page and where magic might be at the very tips of your fingers... The Roald Dahl Classic Collection reinstates the versions of Dahl's books that were published before the 2022 Puffin editions, aimed at newly independent young readers. ROALD DAHL When he was at school Roald Dahl received terrible reports for his writing - with one teacher actually writing in his report, 'I have never met a boy who so persistently writes the exact opposite of what he means. He seems incapable of marshalling his thoughts on paper!' After finishing school Roald Dahl, in search of adventure, travelled to East Africa to work for a company called Shell. In Africa he learnt to speak Swahili, drove from diamond mines to gold mines, and survived a bout of malaria where his temperature reached 105.5 degrees that's very high! . With the outbreak of the Second World War Roald Dahl joined the RAF. But being nearly two metres tall he found himself squashed into his fighter plane, knees around his ears and head jutting forward. Tragically of the 20 men in his squadron, Roald Dahl was one of only three to survive. Roald wrote about these experiences in his books Boy and Going Solo. Later in the war Roald Dahl was sent to America. It was there that he met famous author C.S. Forester author of the Captain Hornblower series who asked the young pilot to write down his war experiences for a story he was writing. Forester was amazed by the result, telling Roald 'I'm bowled over. Your piece is marvellous. It is the work of a gifted writer. I didn't touch a word of it.' an opinion which would have been news to Roald's early teachers! . Forester sent Roald Dahl's work straight to the Saturday Evening Post. Roald Dahl's growing success as an author led him to meet many famous people including Walt Disney, Franklin Roosevelt, and the movie star Patricia Neal. Patricia and Roald were married only one year after they met! The couple bought a house in Great Missenden called Gipsy House. It was here that Roald Dahl began to tell his five children made-up bedtime stories and from those that he began to consider writing stories for children. An old wooden shed in the back garden, with a wingbacked armchair, a sleeping bag to keep out the cold, an old suitcase to prop his feet on and always, always six yellow pencils at his hand, was where Roald created the worlds of The BFG, The Witches, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and many, many more. QUENTIN BLAKE Quentin Blake has illustrated more than three hundred books and was Roald Dahl's favourite illustrator. In 1980 he won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal. In 1999 he became the first ever Children's Laureate and in 2013 he was knighted for services to illustration. Edad recomendada: A partir de 11 años. DAHL ROALD Roald Dahl nació en 1916 en un pueblecito de Gales Gran Bretaña llamado Llandaff en el seno de una familia acomodada de origen noruego. A los cuatro años pierde a su padre y a los siete entra por primera vez en contacto con el rígido sistema educativo británico que deja reflejado en algunos de sus libros, por ejemplo, en Matilda y en Boy. Terminado el Bachillerato y en contra de las recomendaciones de su madre para que cursara estudios universitarios, empieza a trabajar en la compañía multinacional petrolífera Shell, en África. En este continente le sorprende la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Después de un entrenamiento de ocho meses, se convierte en piloto de aviación en la Royal Air Force; fue derribado en combate y tuvo que pasar seis meses hospitalizado. Después fue destinado a Londres y en Washington empezó a escribir sus aventuras de guerra. Su entrada en el mundo de la literatura infantil estuvo motivada por los cuentos que narraba a sus cuatro hijos. En 1964 publica su primera obra, Charlie y la fábrica de chocolate. Escribió también guiones para películas; concibió a famosos personajes como los Gremlins, y algunas de sus obras han sido llevadas al cine. Roald Dahl murió en Oxford, a los 74 años de edad.
Cantidad de páginas	112
Fecha Ingreso	10-03-2025