The Adventures of Roald Dahl

Last term, the Grade Six learners discovered the world of blogging. After learning what a blog is and how to write a post for a blog, they set off to research a topic for a blog post from a list of options. Their finished blog articles were amazing and a few of them will be shared here on Birdie Bookworms over the next few weeks. 

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This post was written by Kim, Paige and Rebekah in Grade Six Suter. They choose the "Favourite Author" topic and found out some interesting things about Roald Dahl's life.

Have you ever wondered about Roald Dahl’s life? His favourite things and his best books? This blog post will give you all the information you need to know. 

Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff, Wales in 1996. Roald Dahl’s first school was Llandaff Cathedral School, St Peters, Repton. For his first job, he was a representative in East Africa for the Shell Oil Company. He was also a RAF fighter pilot in the Second World War in the 1940, he had a bad plane crash so he ended up retiring and became an author. His Norwegian parents had five children, he was the only boy. His youngest sister died at the age of seven, and his father died two months after from heart pain. He was three when his father died.

His first piece of writing was about his adventures in war, which was bought by the Saturday Evening Post. Surprisingly he received terrible marks in English. He had five children, one died at the age of seven from measles.

Roald Dahl's first book was The Gremlins. Then, he wrote Some One Like You. Roald Dahl has been writing children’s stories since 1960. Roald Dahl’s books are enjoyable because they are funny, interesting, exciting and magical. They teach good life lessons. Some of his best children's books are The BFG, Matilda, The Witches, Boy, The Twits, Going Solo and Esio Trot.

His motto was: "My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night, but oh my foes and oh my friends, it gives a lovely life."  Roald Dahl sadly died in 1990 at the age of 74.

Hopefully you now know all you need to know about Roald Dahl, the greatest author who ever lived. He was so amazing he managed to write both children and adult books.

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