Roald Dahl
Fathers now in their fifties are aware that Roald Dahl wrote much more than Charlie and the Chocalate Factory, a newly released film. He also wrote a series called Revolting Ryhmes and when my kids were growing up we all got into Roald. The kids loved him and I enjoyed reading them his poems and stories. How I ever did it before that idiot Latham come on the scene and passed on the secret that reading to kids was a good idea I’ll never know.
If you don’t know much about his works or have forgotten his wicked sense of humour then go read his versions of Goldilocks and the Three Pigs.
If you don’t enjoy ’em you’ve had a humour bypass.
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I coonfess to a `deprived childhood’ , not having read Dahl, but I’m making up for it now.
Dahl, he’s spot on, children enjoy violence and perversity in stories. Seems dated these days,
but I loved the book, Revleations, for that very reason: a very vivid horror story, some nights, reading it under the blankets by torch-light, I’d cheer the evil side on into the wee hours and then, other
nights ride with Michael and the host of armoured angels. It was a satisfyingly bloody read.