An intriguing scrap book, with extracts from story’s  characters and ‘ behind the scene’ notes

This book has extracts of dialog and details from nearly every story Roald Dahl has written including characters and their back story’s. My favorite extract is about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory I like it because it says in his first draft it was going to be written as a diary! Also, in the first draft all of the characters where different! They where; Augustus Pottle, Miranda Grape and Violet Strabmist.

Another bit I enjoyed was about Matilda, a young inelegant child with horrible parents. Although,  first of all Roald was thinking about making Matilda the mean one and her parents the nice ones.  I would defiantly recommend this book to lovers of Roald Dahl and David Walliams, as they both have similar styles of writing.

Also I really like the illustrations in the book done by Quentin Blake, I like them because you can reconise their personality’s just by looking at them!

By Carys Ford