and books now must be slotted into an overscheduled, CV-building childhood and be improving? Edges must be smoothed, words sanitised. Take Roald Dahl’s books, where, for example, the word “fat ...

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The Welsh original scooped Wales Book of the Year Award in 2021 ... “Original and hilarious” Roald Dahl-esque story in which a young boy wakes up to find that he’s been expelled from ...

The older Washington brother plays Boy Willie Charles ... Based on the 1988 novel by Roald Dahl, Matilda the Musical is an adaptation of the 201o stage musical of the same name.

Directed by Peter Hastings (“The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants”), who provides the vocal effects of Dog Man, the voice cast also includes Isla Fisher, Stephen Root, and Ricky Gervais.

The whole world knows Roald ... a boy called Ford she KISSED HIM.’ ‘P.S. Please send my riding breeches as soon as possible. Also a pot of Marmite please.’ Unwholesome intimacies continued at Repton.