Danny the Champion of the World

　　This book is about a most private and secret habit my father had, and about the strange adventures it led us both into....

　　Danny thinks the world of his father, who has looked after him ever since his mother died when Danny was just four months old. But as he grows up, Danny discovers that his father's secret spells adventure and trouble for both of them!

作者簡介

　　Roald Dahl was born in 1916 in Wales of Norwegian parents. He was educated in England before starting work for the Shell Oil Company in Africa. He began writing after a monumental bash on the head, sustained as an RAF pilot during WW2. Roald Dahl isone of the most successful and well-known of all children's writers. His books, which are read the world over include, MATILDA, JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH, THE MAGIC FINGER. Roald Dahl died in 1990 at the age of seventy-four.