A posthumous publication of the celebrated English writer's journal chronicles a year of observing and reflecting on nature.
Roald Dahl had an abiding love for and interest in nature. He kept notes about the habits of moles and foxes, the colour and song of birds and the different flowers, plants and berries that blossomed in the countryside around his home, Gipsy House, throughout the year. In the last year of his life he worked on a diary. But what was originally intended to be a few lines turned into a memorable account of the passing year.
"Roald Dahl has written many great books and this one is no exception. He tells the story of his life during the Second World War, where he was an aircraft pilot in North Africa. It is full of many breathtaking events, and at one point his plane comes down and he nearly dies. "
Charlie has now won Willy Wonka's chocolate factory and with his parents and grandparents - and Mr Wonka - he's travelling by a strange new method of transport: a Great Glass Elevator! But suddenly things start to go wrong as the elevator zooms into the sky, finally going into orbit around the Earth. An exciting adventure ensues, in which Charlie and his companions defend themselves against a mob of vicious space monsters.
The stories are: Death of an Old Man, An African story, A Piece of Cake, Madame Rosette, Katina, Yesterday was Beautiful, They Shall not Grow, Beware of the Dog, Only This, and Someone Like You. These ten stories by the greatest of story tellers were all written in the 40's, and out of the experiences that the man himself had. This is definitely NOT Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory, but rather tales of the unexpected with WW2 aircraft and pilots. Roald was a pilot himself, and here the voice of painful experience comes through.
