- Paperback: 196 pages
- Publisher: Puffin Books (25 Jun 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0141301147
- ISBN-13: 978-0141301143
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 324,621 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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: "My father, without the slightest doubt, was the most marvellous and exciting father any boy ever had". Danny feels very lucky. He adores his life with his father, living in a gypsy caravan, listening to his stories, tending their gas station, puttering around the workshop, and occasionally taking off to fly home-built gas balloons and kites. His father has raised him on his own, ever since Danny's mother died when he was four months old. Life is peaceful and wonderful ... until he turns 9 and discovers his father's one vice. Soon Danny finds himself the mastermind behind the most incredible plot ever attempted against nasty Victor Hazell, a wealthy landowner with a bad attitude. Can they pull it off? If so, Danny will truly be the champion of the world. Danny is right up to Roald Dahl's impishly brilliant standards. An intense and beautiful father-son relationship is balanced with subtle escapades that will have even the most rigid law-abider rooting them on. Dahl's inimitable way with words leaves the reader simultaneously satisfied and itching for more. (Ages 9 to 13) --Emilie Coulter
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"David Wood's ingenious adaptation... the rapture shown by Dad and Danny when they succeed is lovely to behold." Jeremy Kingston, The Times "... as fine a piece of theatre for young people as one could hope to see... moving, uplifting, funny and fast-moving... captures the spirit of Dahl's work in a highly persuasive and heartwarming manner." www.theatrewales.co.uk"
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Danny the Champion of the world is a wonderful story about a boy and his father who become champions at poaching pheasants. Its such an amazing Roald Dahl book, its my favourite and its my dad's too. I couldnt put it down after I started reading it. I am giving it 5 stars as Roald Dahl uses such powerful verbs, adverbs and adjectives, so that you get everything planned in your head and it feels like your in the story. I would recommend to any boys and girls aged 7-12. By Ruby Davis aged 9.
32 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Danny the Champion of the World was adapted into a children's book from one of Roald Dahl adult short stories. This book is perfect for slightly older children (aged 8 to 12). I first read it when I was nine and it was so exciting at the time I had to read some of it standing up because I could not sit still and read it at the same time. I still remembered the sheer excitement and tension when Danny was in the car. This is a gripping book for children to read.
It is also hugely touching as we see Danny's relationship to his Father develop. The sparky, enthusiastic and loving Father is an absolute joy to read about. Roald Dahl never had a Father himself (he died when he was young) and the figure in this book is obviously his ideal figure. I reread this book recently and I went for a walk though the autumn countryside afterwards because of it. It made me remember some important things that matter about life that I'd previously forgotten when I was lost under adult work and bills to pay. It left me profoundly affected.
The message at the end about what a Father should be should be a message to us all.
This is the most sensitive and well written of all Roald Dahl's children's books. It is also hugely funny. I feel so lucky to have been able to read Roald Dahl as a child. All children will love this book.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I first read this book when I was seven years old. Now at the age of ten I still enjoy reading it. Roald Dahl writer of wild and wacky children's books writes in a different style in this book. Here Dahl's style contrasts humour with seriousness, making it a good read for all ages.
In this book, Danny leads a very untroubled life - and he thinks his father does too - until he finds out his father's secret. At first he is worried, but then he realises the adventure in this sport - POACHING!
One night, his father doesn't come back from the woods. Only quick thinking and a few dangerous moves help Danny to save his father from the owner of the woods, Mr Hazel. With his father safe, Danny invents a way to poach hundreds of pheasants. Will this work? And if he does, what will make him `Champion of the World?"
"Danny, Champion of the World" is a great read. I only give it 3 stars now because at my age I am reading far more exciting and sophisticated novels. But I expect one day that (like most people) I will take the copy off the shelf again and enjoy it once more.
The book has a note at the end which I think is utterly true. I must express that this book is an easy read for both father and son - "a totally brilliant read. A great buy."
In this book, Danny leads a very untroubled life - and he thinks his father does too - until he finds out his father's secret. At first he is worried, but then he realises the adventure in this sport - POACHING!
One night, his father doesn't come back from the woods. Only quick thinking and a few dangerous moves help Danny to save his father from the owner of the woods, Mr Hazel. With his father safe, Danny invents a way to poach hundreds of pheasants. Will this work? And if he does, what will make him `Champion of the World?"
"Danny, Champion of the World" is a great read. I only give it 3 stars now because at my age I am reading far more exciting and sophisticated novels. But I expect one day that (like most people) I will take the copy off the shelf again and enjoy it once more.
The book has a note at the end which I think is utterly true. I must express that this book is an easy read for both father and son - "a totally brilliant read. A great buy."
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Danny Champion of the World
This audiobook tells a very nice story of a happy young boy and his gorgeous father, who live in an old gypsy caravan without electricity in it. Read more
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Danny the Champion of the World
I found it cleverly plotted and Dahl also cross-references the BFG in this book. I enjoyed how the plot unravelled itself and cleverly brought an unusual ending to the plot that... Read more
Published 6 months ago by normski
CHAMPION
Bought for my teacher wife as a resource It came real fast and did the task a treat she was well happy hmmm don't think she wouls appreciate the grammar.
Published 6 months ago by B. G. Ewart
I think that this is one of my favourite Roald Dahl books!
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i like this book , so to begin danny is on his bed seared looking out of the window wanting his dad to come and later he does and he feels supicious so he finds out he had been... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Ryan
As expected
I am using this book teaching children English language.
The book is funny and well suited for this purpose.
The book is funny and well suited for this purpose.
Published 14 months ago by Kari
Danny is a champ!
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Published 17 months ago by The best Year 4 class
Great Script
I bought this script from the Regent Theatre in Hanley Stoke-on-Trent I went to see the show with my old carer and this was her favourite story about Danny and his Father William. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Richard Smith
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