The BFG was my favorite book for years. After reading it several times, I memorized the author's foreign name, Roald Dahl, to memory and headed to the library. I read Witches, then Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, The Magic Finger, The Twits and some poetry. I couldn't put Dahl's books down. He has a way of transplanting his reader to a new place and making them understand a new perspective. Up until then, I had read Judy Blume and other reality-based children's novels and a few classic children books, like Little Women and The Secret Garden. To read a funny fantasy was refreshing, I think.
After exhausting the majority of Dahl's children and teen books, I moved on to his Autobiographies. They were amazing. While reading, Boy, I couldn't believe the things he lived through when he was just my age.
Roald Dahl was my introduction to contemporary authors, autobiographies and searching out books without teacher or parent input.
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