Kathryn's Inbox

I had so much fun reading the Little People Big Dreams book about Andy Warhol that I just had to turn my attention to another recent release from the series, this one featuring controversial author Roald Dahl. After all, how would someone explain Roald Dahl to children--an author who was exceptionally talented, who they've most probably heard of and read some of his work already, and who in his personal life was exceptionally complicated and cruel?  Well, somehow, author Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara does exactly that. As is an integral part of this series, she introduces the reader to the subject, this time Roald Dahl, as a child and shows how he is shaped by a childhood experience of taste testing chocolate bars and unfair school policies and how they influence his later work. She also recounts his experiences fighting in the Second World War (ending in injury) how he begins his career as a writer and ... she acknowledges that he was far from perfect and that he was anti-semitic (d...