![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Matilda finds her courage facing off with a bully of a headmistress, named Miss Trunchbull. It's the story of a lonely girl with special powers and neglectful parents. She joins Michele Norris to talk about Matilda, this month's pick for NPR's Backseat Book Club. Lucy Dahl - the youngest of Dahl's five children with his first wife, American actress Patricia Neal - remembers hearing those stories before she fell asleep. That bedtime story became Dahl's first children's book, James and the Giant Peach. This went on for quite a long time with a story about a peach that got bigger and bigger and I thought, 'Well heck, why don't I write it.' " And if they ever said the next night, 'Tell us some more about that one,' you knew you had something. Roald Dahl died in 1990.Įvery night, author Roald Dahl told his children a story: "Most of them pretty bad," he admitted in a 1972 BBC4 interview, "but now and again you'd tell one and you see a little spark of interest. Author Roald Dahl stands with his wife, American actress Patricia Neal, and their newborn daughter, Lucy, outside their home in Buckinghamshire, England, in August 1965. ![]()
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