Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Roald Dahl's Time Line


1916 Born September 13


1920 Roald Dahl's sister Astri at the age of 7 and only a few months later Roald Dahl's father passed away the family was devastated.


1938 Roald Dahl's begins working in Shell's branch office in East Africa.


1940 Roald Dahl's suffers serious injuries from a plane crash in Libya. Roald Dahl Spends 2 months in military hospital in Alexandria Egypt.


1945 Roald Dahl's moves back to Amersham, England to be near his mum Sofie.


1944 Roald Dahl makes a permernate job with shorts magazine stories.


1951 Roald Dahl meet his to be wife Patricia Neal.


1957 Roal Dahl's new daughter Chantal Sophia was born April 11.


1960 Roald Dahl's sons born Theo Matthew Roald with his new wife Patricia Neal.


1966-1990 Over 40 novels, films and play are written by Roald Dahl.


1990 Roald Dahl dies 23 november aged 74.


Thursday, November 26, 2009

ROALD DAHL AND HIS CAREER WITH BOOKS.

Roald Dahl started working as a book writer in 1934. He had train with Shell Petroleum for 2 years the join another company and started to write amazing books which everyone loved. Roald Dahl passed away saddly on the year of 1990 with a total of writing over 100 books, plays and many other things!

ROALD DAHL’S CHILDHOOD

Roald Dahl was born in Wales. His parents were Norwegian. Roald’s father Harold passed away when Roald was only four so you can imagine it was a tough upbringing. Roald’s lost was very emotional it became even worse three weeks later when his eldest sister passed away from appendicitis. One year later Roald started school. Roald was bullied and appalled that the senior boys were allowed to literally wound younger boys!
Roald always got punished severely by the matron of the dormitories and by the masters of the school.