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Danny the Champion of the World

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Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl, and Quentin Blake

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By Roald Dahl, and and, Quentin Blake

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Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl is the much-loved tale of how Danny and his father outwitted the mean Mr Victor Hazell.

Danny thinks his dad is the most marvellous and exciting father a boy could wish for. Life is happy and peaceful in their gipsy caravan, until one day Danny discovers his dad has been breaking the law. What’s more, soon Danny has to join his father as they attempt to pull off a daring and devilish plot against horrible, red-faced Mr Victor Hazell . . .

""A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero"" David Walliams

Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children’s writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after ""a monumental bash on the head"", sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990.

Quentin Blake is one of the best-known and best-loved children’s illustrators and it’s impossible now to think of Roald Dahl’s writings without imagining Quentin Blake’s illustrations.

Reviews

18 Dec 2024

This book is about a father and son breaking the law and pull off a plot to poach 200 pheasants in one go

11 Nov 2024

A story about a boy and his dad who get into trouble doing something they shouldn’t be. A great read.

14 Sep 2024

I thought it was funny. I thought mr Victor hazel was funny. I would recommend it to a friend as it is a good book.

13 Jan 2024

amazing

07 Jan 2024

I really liked this book because I really liked Danny the little boy who stopped Mr Hazel from having a grand shooting party. It is a fiction book and I liked the part where all the pheasants were falling to the ground after being drugged with sleeping pills. I would recommend this book to other people.

03 Sep 2023

I thought that the book was great because Danny created a new way of poaching pheasants.Mr victor Hazel invites lots of posh people every year. so how can Danny and his Dad stop them?

28 Aug 2023

I love this book

I like all, the characters

I would recommend this book to everybody

24 Aug 2023

I love that Danny loves his Daddy

05 Aug 2023

It was amazing! Such an incredible story! Roald Dahl is definitely the number one storyteller!

01 Aug 2023

good book

17 Jul 2023

Danny is the best and the dad likes going out poaching for revenge because victor threatened his child I recommend it is a good book

07 Sep 2022

This book was about a boy named Danny who lived with his dad in a old dusty wagon that horses used to carry beside his dad's work, a garage where he worked with cars. My favourite part was when one night he couldn't here his dad sleeping on top of his bunk he just assumed he was working at the garage lat at night until he checked and Know one was there. He waited for another 8 hours and know one came so he decided to drive a car all the way to a place called Hazell's wood where his dad had been recently when he arrived he found his dad in a steep hole so he used the hook attached to the car and attached it to a tree and pulled him out of there. His dad said he had been trapped by people in Hazell's wood and had been injured badly.

12 Aug 2022

I loved it.

04 Aug 2022

I think this is an outstanding book that I enjoyed very much.

I like Danny's Dad the most since his personality is very good and I like the part where he had to give up his secret which was poaching.

Yes, I would recommend this book to someone else.

04 Aug 2022

I really like Danny because of his funny way of poaching with sleeping pills. It was so funny when all the pheasants flew into Mr Hazel's car. My favourite character is Danny.

17 Jul 2022

Ok

14 Sep 2021

I really like this book because it is funny, kind and at times some sadness. My favourite character was Danny because he helped his dad escape the animal trap. I would recommend it to my friends.

09 Sep 2021

My favourite character was Danny’s dad because he’s really funny. In the book they go poaching for pheasants. I’d recommend the book to someone who likes funny books.

05 Sep 2021

I liked it when Danny tried to stop the rich people

05 Sep 2021

Ha

04 Sep 2021

Epic and good. I liked Doc Spencer, he was really kind and generous

29 Aug 2021

I liked this book but I did get scared about if they would be caught or not.

29 Aug 2021

This book is exiting with a very tricky plans and plots ! It really keeps you thinking what is going to happen next I recommend to readers who like adventure and nerve racking experiences

29 Aug 2021

it was a good book danny becomes a poaching genius!

26 Aug 2021

It was a wonderful book to read! To me, it felt so surprising about a lovely dad who always keeps a promise and never hides secrets but Danny discovers a secret from his Dad that he never heard. His dad goes poaching! This was a fiction book and I liked the character Danny because he learned how to make cars at the age of 5-6. He also made up an idea of his own to poach 200 pheasants in one day, even when they are roosting. I would highly recommend this book to anyone.

18 Aug 2021

I liked this book. I would recommend it. it was a fiction book and I liked Danny alot. this book was about a boy called danny and his father and they went poaching.

07 Aug 2021

it's good

14 Jul 2021

Lovely book

13 Jul 2021

This is a great book. I enjoyed reading this with my mum and dad. I liked the characters and the adventures Danny got up to.

21 Feb 2021

I think its a good book about a boy named Danny, who helps his father when he broke his ankle.
Danny is my favourite character because he is comes up with good ideas to round the pheasants and put them to sleep with raisins.He is smart and super intelligent because he used rope to pull his dad out of a square pit.
I will definitely recommend my friends to read this book

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