![]() ![]() Adults were rarely entirely pleased with Dahl’s stories as they came out, but they definitely disliked this one in particular. ![]() But according to Anita Silvey’s 100 Best Books for Children, “In the second chapter of Danny, the Champion of the World, Danny’s father tells his son a series of bedtime stories ‘about an enormous fellow called The Big Friendly Giant, or the BFG for short.’ Huh! Who knew?įor this book, editor Stephen Roxburgh apparently (according to Silvey) “spent days drafting his editorial suggestions to Dahl, ten typed, single-spaced pages that commented on inconsistencies, cliches, and matters of taste.” Whew! Prior to the publication of this book Roald Dahl tried his hand at the story George’s Marvelous Medicine. ![]() I was unaware that Roald Dahl liked to put references from one of his books into another. ![]()
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