Danny the Champion of the World

Sep 21, 2024 4:13 PM

Author:Roald Dahl,Quentin Blake

"A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parentwho is sparky"

Danny has the most marvellous and exciting father anyone ever had. He can repair any car or machine that people bring to him, loves going on adventures with Danny and tells him incredible stories around the stove in the cozy caravan they call home.

The land around them belongs to Mr Hazell, a rich bully who NOBODY likes, not one-little bit. So, Danny and his father concoct a daring plot that will give Mr Hazell the greatest shock of his life.

But can they pull off this level of mischief-making without getting caught...?

Reviews

This is a GREAT book! Funny, charming, original, secretly educational.

—— Adam Kay

The most important author since Shakespeare

—— New York Times

There is something so complete in Mr. Hemingway's achievement in A Farewell to Arms that one is left speculating as to whether another novel will follow in this manner, and whether it does not complete both a period and a phase...crisply natural and convincing

—— Guardian, 1929

A novel of great power

—— Times Literary Supplement

Essential Hemingway...a gripping account of the life of an American volunteer in the Italian army and a poignant love story

—— Daily Express

Hard, almost metallic, glittering, blinding by the reflections of its hard surface, utterly free of sentimentality- a strange and original book, it will convince you of its honesty and veracity

—— Arnold Bennett

A most beautiful, moving and humane book

—— Vita Sackville-West

A novel of great power.

—— TLS

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