Roald Dahl’s 1982 children’s book The BFG is marching up USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list as anticipation builds for Steven Spielberg’s movie adaptation, opening July 1. The BFG (which ...

The giants' unwieldy names and unpleasant habits are taken straight from Dahl's book, and they represent ... at least sound pretty ghastly. But The BFG plays them more like schoolyard bullies ...

The Witches (good ones); the BFG; Fantastic Mr. Fox ... stories he put together later in a book called Boy. But what never changed was our evening ritual. After our story (which was never read ...

1. The BFG comes from Roald Dahl’s ‘Ideas Book.’ As with many of Dahl’s books, The BFG was born from an Ideas Book. Dahl scribbled down all his thoughts and inspirations in these ...

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So if you catch "The BFG" in theaters, make sure to pick up the book to read aloud as well. Clara Martin works for Lemuria Books.

Roald Dahl’s “The BFG” begins in the middle of the night; that magic hour of 3 a.m. when everything’s hushed and, in the book’s words, “all the dark things come out from hiding and ...

The film is adapted from Roald Dahl’s 1982 children’s book of the same name, and Dahl created a special lingo for the giant that he called “gobblefunk.” When the BFG tells the young ...

Before you watch it, here are nine things you might not have known. 1. Dahl’s favourite book The BFG – which stands for “big friendly giant” – was published in 1982. It was British ...

Roald Dahl’s books have captured the hearts of children — and adults — for generations. His imaginative stories have made way for many popular movies. You may not even know that a handful of ...

Dahl’s publisher at Penguin Books set up a few meetings ... s “The Fantastic Mr. Fox” and Steven Spielberg’s “The BFG,” which opens this weekend. In a lengthy interview, Siegel ...