5/23/2023 0 Comments Books like fantastic mr fox![]() ![]() James and the Giant Peach was also animated as that is a terrific medium to get into the intricacies of Dahl's extremely imaginative and otherworldly prose. The screenplay was written by frequent collaborators Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach and is a stop motion animation film. ![]() The latest of these is (another) animated adaptation of one of his best loved books, this time Fantastic Mr. It seems that Dahl was a little bit ahead of his time as his books were perfectly written as the basis for a film screenplay so it is no surprise that most of his novels have been turned into feature films with varying degrees of success. ![]() I grew up with Roald Dahl's books as they came out when I was just the right age to appreciate them as fantasy stories, not too young for the wonderful prose and poetry to go over my head or be particularly frightened by the darker elements (of which there are many) so the likes of The Twits, James and the Giant Peach and The Witches formed the backbone of my bedtime stories. ![]()
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