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The unnamed Grandmother in the Witches is easily the best of them, imparting untarnished wisdom to her grandson through a cloud of cigar smoke and ultimately offering lifelong companionship following his transformation into a mouse. While good parents are somewhat thin on the ground in Dahl’s corpus, excellent grandparents appear with pleasing regularity. Dahl was obviously smitten as he returned to battle The Twits and appears in the peculiar Dirty Beasts‘ poem The Toad and the Snail. Among the flamboyant jungle animals featured the Roly Poly Bird who stands up to his dreadful antagonist but loses his beautiful plumage in the process. The Roly Poly Bird (The Twits, The Enormous Crocodile, Dirty Beasts)ĭahl’s fascination with Africa, so disastrously deployed in early editions of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, with its race of pygmy slaves the Oompa Loompas, found a safer outlet in the Enormous Crocodile. She is also an orphan who transcends her sad origins and even wins the heart of the Queen of England. Sophie (The BFG)ĭahl’s other great female heroine, Sophie (named after his granddaughter) takes the reader into one of the author’s most fantastical, and often scary settings, the land of the giants. Not that Dahl is any linguistic slouch, describing the ‘Me’ of the title as being ‘ so skinny he seemed to be made only out of furry bits of wire.’ And like the near identical Muggle-Wump of the Twits fame, he steals every scene he appears in.
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I have a suspicion that The Giraffe the Pelly and Me was written primarlily as a vehicle for illustrator Quentin Blake’s delightful monkeys. Me, the monkey (The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me) The chapter where he sets off in a Baby Austin to rescue William in the middle of the night is a particularly thrilling high point. This rural fantasy is told, unusually for the author, in the first person and as a result we get closer to Danny than almost any other Dahl character. The hero of a book beloved even by non-Dahl fans, Danny’s appeal lies in the relationship with his poacher father William.
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George Kranky (George’s Marvellous Medicine) One of the hot favourites in this competition, and I suspect in any poll of classic characters of children’s literature, Matilda Wormwood combines the qualities of the plucky underdog, an introvert’s love of reading with a magical and often naughty sense of justice. Did your favourite make the grade? Matilda Wormwood (Matilda) Collected here are the final 16, along with four of my personal favourite runners up. Things got really interesting in the latter stages of the contest when the more obscure players left the competition leaving the heavyweights to battle it out along with some surprise outsiders.
#CHARACTERS IN THE WITCHES ROALD DAHL SERIES#
WUHXE6W3KE- Jake Hayes Over the course of the first lockdown of 2020 I kept myself sane by running a series of World Cups on Twitter covering children’s books, kid’s TV and finally the characters of Roald Dahl. Beginning today, the most giganticus twitter poll yet.Ħ4 characters from 16 books compete to win the keys to the chocolate factory.