My favourite Roald Dahl character is Charlie Bucket ... Before I even knew Dahl wrote children’s books, I was reading his more macabre stories. My favourite character is Mrs Foster, from The ...

In a delightful nod to the classic book, the retailer’s festive spot, created by New Commercial Arts, features a 24-foot-tall ...

Help us keep bring these critical stories to light. Your support makes all the difference. Books by Dahl including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda ...

But I used scratchy ink nibs to illustrate the 18 books I did for Roald Dahl over the 15 years I knew him until his death in 1990. The characters in The Twits are really unpleasant, so I had to ...

Roald Dahl is one of our absolute favourite authors; from The BFG, to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, to Matilda, he brought us a plethora of bold and brilliant literary heroes during his ...

The editor asked me to speak to the world-renowned children’s author Roald Dahl after he’d made some troubling remarks about Jews, describing them as “a race of people” who had “switched ...

An iconic Roald Dahl character takes centre ... the 24-foot-tall friendly giant known for being part of Dahl’s mystical world of children’s books since 1982, features in the advert as he ...

Roald Dahl has taken London by storm. At the same time that a musical based on his children’s book Matilda runs at the Cambridge Theatre in Covent Garden, Mark Rosenblatt’s Giant, a semi ...

TIMOTHEE Chalamet climbs into the boots of Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp before him to give Willy Wonka a kinder, less eccentric touch. ©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. 679215 ...

Publishing in general has become far more wary, a world where ‘sensitivity readers’ have re-edited Roald Dahl and books can ...

Every time Mr Twit eats, foulsome food flies towards Mrs Twit who is trying to sleep. Score by stopping the mouldy morsels hitting her. But watch out because if she wakes up she'll whack Mr Twit ...

Tim Burton has said he is against the removal of offensive language in old books by writers including Roald Dahl and Dr Seuss ...