Wednesday 13 September 2006

Happy Birthday Roald.

Fans of all ages are staging parties to celebrate what would have been the 90th birthday of writer Roald Dahl.

Exhibitions and children's reading campaigns are being held to commemorate the life of Dahl, who died in 1990 and has sold more than 100 million books.
A special train will take visitors from London to Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire where Dahl wrote in a hut at the bottom of the garden.

His daughter Lucy said: "He understood children and identified with them."
She added that he would have been "over the moon" about the day of celebrations in his honour. "He never really celebrated himself in any huge way but he was always thrilled when people would celebrate him," said Ms Dahl.

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