Book Reviews: The BFG

As previously mentioned, I like to go back and reread childhood books sometimes. Well, a lot of the time actually. Lately I've been working my way through the Roald Dahls. This is definitely the best so far! It's gloriously creative and silly with a big victorious finale. I love the super imaginative descriptions of the weird Giant Country and catching, mixing and blowing dreams. And the frobscottle with the bubbles going down, of course. It's got genuinely detestable villains and loveable heroes. The best bit is the words though. Apparently it was inspired by Roald Dahl's wife, who had had several strokes and was struggling to speak. Often her words came out a bit jumbled up and he used this as inspiration for the BFG's style of talking. Even though he uses a lot of made up words you always know exactly what he means and it makes the book much more fun and colourful. And if it seems a bit cruel to write a book that seems to be making fun of her, Roald Dahl did also more-ore-less single handedly teach her how to speak properly again.