This year marks 100 years since famous author Roald Dahl was born.
Dahl wrote more than 20 children’s books, including The Twits, Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Roald Dahl was incredibly creative and came up with more than 500 new words and character names.
Some examples are Oompa-Loopmas and scrumdiddlyumptious from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and snozzcumbers and frobscottle from the BFG.
He called his language Gobblefunk, and loved to play around with words and invent new ones or meanings.
This year Oxford University Press even created the Roald Dahl Dictionary, which features almost 8,000 real and imaginary words which he loved to use.
Roald Dahl spent around four hours every day writing stories from his garden shed!
He would also only write his stories using a pencil and yellow paper.
What is your favourite Roald Dahl book?
48 Responses
my favorite Roald Dahl book is the BFG (the big friendly giant).
My favourite book is the bfg I love it
my fav book from his is prob the twits 🙂
Wow that is so cool
Wow, that is amazing.
I love his language.
My favourite Roald Dahl book is Matilda.
it was a shock
That can’t be true
100 years is a very long time. I hope he gets remembered in 200 years
My favourite book is James and the giant peach.
i love his books
My favourite book is the bfg
my favourite book is charlie and the chocolate factry
i loved this author
I LOVE Going solo and Matilda.
I like Charlie and the chocolate factory.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE the movies of Charlie and the chocolate factory and BFG.
Thanks Roald Dahl Love your books.???
I like roald dahl his book’s a good to the max
My favourite would have to be James and the giant peach and charlie and chocolate factory.
I never knew that it was 100 years since he was born!
it is sad roald dal died but he wrote amazing books my favorite book is the witchs
My favourite book is the BFG (The Big Friendly Giant)
It’s bad he died
my book is the twits
charlie and the chocolate factory
My favourite favourite book from Roald Dahl is all of them
I love BFG
I love Ronald Dahl
That is awesome
my faveret is the BFG
I loved the books and I still do
My favourite book that Roald Dahl wrote is the BFG! It was awesome when I heard that it became a movie!
My fav was the book was James & the giant peach. It has the first children’s book he wrote.
my fav book of his is Matilda
my favorite book of his is matilda
Happy Birthday Roald Dahl, my favourite book is probably Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!
It’s so wonderful to see that even after Roald Dahl’s death people still celebrate his birthday!
My favourite roald Dahl book is Matilda??
Roald Dahl is such a good author my fave book is charlie and the chocolate factory (and the movie!)
my favourite i the gremlins by roald dahl
My favourite book is going solo I have all his books
My favourite book is definitely Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with The BFG coming a close second but I also enjoyed Witches a lot.
My Favourite is Matilda and The Witches 🙂
My is Matilda
My favourite book is the Charlie and the chocolate factory
All his books are good but Matilda rules
My fav book will have to be Charlie and the chocolate factory
DANNY THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD! MOST LEAST WELL KNOWN, BUT STILL THE BEST!
My favorite book is “The Twits”
My favourite Roald Dahl book is by far Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
my fav book is charlie and the choclate factory
My favorite book is quite peculiarly The Witches.
My second favorite book must be James And The Giant Peach.