Danny the Champion of the World
by Roald Dahl
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Author: Roald DahlBrand: Puffin Books
Illustrator: Quentin Blake
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-08-16
ISBN: 0142410330
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Puffin
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- ISBN13: 9780142410332
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Danny the Champion of the World
Book Review: A delightful adventure
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the lesser-known works of the late Roald Dahl, the author behind "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "James and the Giant Peach", "Danny the Champion of the World" is the delightfully fantastical account of a young boy and his father taking on a small patch of tyranny and emerging in snickering triumph.
Danny lives with his fun-loving father in a small rural caravan in England, helping with the family service station and soaking up Dad's country wisdom. Along with the craft of vehicle repair, Danny learns to find adventure using everyday objects. The pair creates all types of toys, from kites and boomerangs to "fire balloons" and stilts.
One night, Danny wakes during the night to find his father missing. Though his father comes home safe, Danny's life will never be the same.
Out spills a secret about not only his father, but many of the townspeople he grew up knowing. Soon Danny has hatched a plan to carve out his own place in the history of this fantastic secret.
Dahl is known for his ability to delight audiences of all ages. Like "Charlie" and "James", this work reflects his ability to see through young eyes. Danny experiences life, from listening to his father's bedtime stories to sinking his teeth into a delicious meat pie, with the thrilled awe of a child.
Dahl's descriptions of people, particularly the not-so-nice characters, are hilarious. One of Danny's teachers is described as having "fiery carrot-colored hair and a little clipped carroty mustache and a fiery temper. Carroty-colored hair also sprouted out of his nostrils and his earholes." A childish word like "earholes" thrown in with the vivid description of "Captain Lancaster" is a nice touch.
The book features illustrations by Quentin Blake, who provided drawings for many of Dahl's other works, as well. Though simple in form, the illustrations are a nice compliment to the story. The pictures of Captain Lancaster and of Mr. Victor Hazell, the story's primary villain, are particularly nice.
"Danny" will appeal to anyone who likes a bit of adventure in everyday life. The book, at just over 200 pages, is probably best for readers ages nine and up. The tale itself is good for anyone who's old enough to hear it read aloud, perhaps as a nightly installment of bedtime stories.
Summary of Danny the Champion of the World
anny?s dad had a secret, but now the secret?s out and it?s going to lead Danny on the adventure of a lifetime.
"My father, without the slightest doubt, was the most marvelous and exciting father any boy ever had." Danny feels very lucky. He adores his life with his father, living in a gypsy caravan, listening to his stories, tending their gas station, puttering around the workshop, and occasionally taking off to fly home-built gas balloons and kites. His father has raised him on his own, ever since Danny's mother died when he was four months old. Life is peaceful and wonderful... until he turns 9 and discovers his father's one vice. Soon Danny finds himself the mastermind behind the most incredible plot ever attempted against nasty Victor Hazell, a wealthy landowner with a bad attitude. Can they pull it off? If so, Danny will truly be the champion of the world. Danny is right up to Roald Dahl's impishly brilliant standards. An intense and beautiful father-son relationship is balanced with sublegal high jinks that will have even the most rigid law-abider rooting them on. Dahl's inimitable way with words leaves the reader simultaneously satisfied and itching for more. (Ages 9 to 13) --Emilie Coulter
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