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    Danny the Champion of the World

    Written by Roald Dahl

    Narrated by Peter Serafinowicz

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    "Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian…[His] stories work better in audio than in print." -The New York Times


    Can Danny and his father outsmart the villainous Mr. Hazell?

    Danny has a life any boy would love-his home is a gypsy caravan, he's the youngest master car mechanic around, and his best friend is his dad, who never runs out of wonderful stories to tell. But one night Danny discovers a shocking secret that his father has kept hidden for years. 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.


    From the Compact Disc edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateSep 26, 2013
    ISBN9781101628928
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    Danny the Champion of the World
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    Roald Dahl

    Roald Dahl (1916-1990) es un autor justamente famoso por su extraordinario ingenio, su destreza narrativa, su dominio del humor negro y su inagotable capacidad de sorpresa, que llevó a Hitchcock a adaptar para la televisión muchos de sus relatos. En Anagrama se han publicado la novela "Mi tío Oswald" y los libros de cuentos "El gran cambiazo" (Gran Premio del Humor Negro), "Historias extraordinarias", "Relatos de lo inesperado" y "Dos fábulas". En otra faceta, Roald Dahl goza de una extraordinaria popularidad como autor de libros para niños.

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    • 5/5
      Great book
    • 5/5
      Currently reading this with my 9-year old son. Loving every chapter of it so far...
    • 5/5
      On the edge of my set I recamend it for years 4s to 6 .
    • 5/5
      An interesting story about a widower raising his young son in England. THe father owns a small parcel of land with a gas station, a workshop, some apple trees and their gypsy caravan home. Danny learns much from his father from how engines work to how to poach pheasants from the neighbor's woods. I found it interesting that Danny becomes "champion of the world" when he comes up with a new idea about how to poach the pheasants from the hated neighbor .
    • 4/5
      Ok book Little bit confusing bit to longbut i guess it was good to read
    • 2/5
      I read this book because I remember Roald Dahl as being one of my favourite authors when I was a child, but sadly this book really dissapointed me. The age group he was aiming for is probably not me, but still I think the execution of the plot was to simple and not many other elements were added.
    • 4/5
      why i piced it up?..... i was reading the roald dahl searies and i saw this one caught the coner of my eye. the title took to my atetion and i wanted to know why he was the champion of the world.why i finnished this book?.....it was interesting and didn't tell you why he was the champion of the world until the end and even after you've found out why the story keeps going and it gets even more exiting.who would reccomend this book to?..... i would reccomend this book to boys mainly but some girls may enjoy it. i think the ages between 10-17 would enjoy it most but some 9 yr olds could enjoy this book.
    • 5/5
      Danny and his father live in a small gypsy caravan just big enough for two, next to their small filling station where they both work on engines and fill up gas tanks. They live in a small town and Danny goes to a small school. But Danny’s father has a big, huge secret. One night, when Danny wakes up to find that his father is not asleep in the bunk above him, he goes out in search of his father and winds up knowing a lot more about the man than he could ever imagine. There is no other children’s author quite like Roald Dahl - his mastery of melding the worlds of children, adults, and magical fantasy looks so easy, readers are often left thinking: “How does he do that?” As an award-winning author of young and adult fiction, a fighter pilot and spy, and a world-renown philanthropist, nothing seems to stand in Dahl’s way. His characters are brilliant in their wholly-developed, yet simplistically-pure natures and readers can’t help falling in love with each and every one of them (even the baddies). “Danny: Champion of the World” may be one of Dahl’s lesser known children’s books – perhaps few parents and teachers were very thrilled about pushing a book in which the lead character was a pheasant poacher – but it still takes its place amongst Dahl’s pantheon of works as a delightful yarn that teams up adoring father and son in pursuit of the perfect, most-succulent meal. Recommended for ages 8-11.
    • 5/5
      Amazing book. My favourite book.
    • 3/5
      Danny has the best father ever- his adventures growing up in a gypsy caravan by a gas station where his father repairs cars are more exciting than anything a regular boy gets to do. Danny's everyday exciting life is made even more exciting by an idea to get revenge on one of the most prosperous and influential men in town. Danny has a wild and slightly dangerous plan- if they can pull it off, he will indeed be the champion of the world.
    • 5/5
      Danny, Champion of the World was given to me by a friend many years ago. It was one of the few Roald Dahl books I haven't read, so I was excited to read it. I was moved to tears while reading this book - it tells the story about a very positive and healthy relationship between a single-father and his son. The book is filled with colourful characters, who feel very real - Roald Dahl's storytelling makes you feel like you know them intimately after only a few paragraphs. I recommend this book to any parent - or anyone who wants to be a parent, father figure, role model or leader. An overwhelmingly positive reading experience, sincere and warm, this book can be enjoyed by anyone of any age. Read it for yourself, read it to your children, recommend this book to all your friends.
    • 5/5
       Danny and his dad have a heart for poching peasents from one of their worsed enemies that are trying to steal their ground. They want to poch all of the peasents in one day but how? This book is good for people that like sneaking and tricking and getting revenge on people.
    • 4/5
      How did I miss this Roald Dahl book until now? The relationship between Danny and his father is sweet and heartening, and their adventures are charmingly exciting!
    • 4/5
      Danny and his widowed father live in a tiny gypsy caravan parked behind his father’s filling station and garage. Danny absolutely worships his father who seems annoyingly good at everything to do with both cars and parenting. (It ends with the following message to child readers: When you grow up and have children of your own do please remember something important. A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY.”)Anyway, Danny’s father has a secret vice, and it leads to a Great Adventure. And yes it actually is exciting, even for grownups – I was reading this book for at least the second time and even I was on the edge of my seat more than once. :)
    • 5/5
      You won't be surprised to hear that this is not the first time I've read this book, I don't know how old I was when I first devoured the Roald Dahl books, but I'd reckon it was when I was about 9 or 10 years old.I've always enjoyed reading, and therefore it was only natural that I'd read all of his books, Danny was first published in 1975, my copy is the Penguin edition and therefore published in 1977 - so it wasn't long afterwards that I came to it.The story of a boy and his father, their simple life together in an old gypsy caravan, and their amazing adventure on the wrong side of the law!! Simple days when poaching was fun and everyone from the local doctor to the village bobby was in on the act!Roald Dahl books are timeless, and although the story is simple - no sub-plots or even much back story - it's compelling and so well written that the book is difficult to put down (and that's when I already knew the story!). Danny and his father come up with a wonderful plan to get their own back on the local nasty landowner - and get some scrummy dinner at the same time!I'd recommend this book to anyone, of any age. Great for children, but still wonderful for anyone who likes a nice simple engaging story.The other nice thing is that something that I remember with such fondness from my childhood has completely stood the test of time, it's as good as I remember it being - and how often does that happen?
    • 4/5
      I've loved Roald Dahl since I was a child, and to this day still revere the novels that I knew well before I even hit double-digits. I had never heard of Danny, the Champion of the World until I got it as a Christmas gift a few years ago, so gave it a try this year.It's fairly clear that children are the primary targets for this novel, and it doesn't seem to have the expansive appeal that makes it interesting for adults as well as the children for whom it was intended. Danny is a sweet character, if somewhat lacking in depth, and his father's faults seem contrived at best. It's a very bland good-vs-evil scenario from start to finish. With that clear, I think the book would be a valuable one to read with children, as it could prompt some interesting discussion about morality, stealing and what it means to be a "good" person. The book isn't horrible by any stretch of the imagination. I simply wasn't as enthralled with it as I hoped I would be.
    • 5/5
      One of my favorite stories of Dahl's, this is a real adventure, albeit somewhat more of a gentle read compared to other books. This was one of my favorite books growing up, and it's one I recommend. Thoughtful and funny, and less edgy than some of Dahl's other books for children.
    • 4/5
      This is a simple, gentle story of Danny and his dadTwo wonderful beings living a good life as opposed to a badThis is a moving story of people who love each other both in day and in nightWith no mean and nasty twits or witches causing trouble, toil and fright.No foxes who are smarter or owls who give a wicked hootNo chocolate or factories or giant peachy fruitIt is a story about a motherless boy who shows in a deep abiding taleThat when your father loves you there's no way that you can fail.
    • 4/5
      Danny couldn’t live with her mother because she died early, but Danny still lives with his awesome father. Danny’s dad owned a filling station and also fixed cars. At that time he lived in an old small caravan that is where he became mature. Danny liked his dad the most because he always found something that is interesting and fun. When Danny was seven he already knew how to take apart the engine and fix it again. His dad wanted Danny to be skilled enough to be like his dad when he grows up. When Danny was nine years old he found out the dark secret his dad didn’t tell. After Danny knew the dark secret the adventure began.
    • 5/5
      I read this book the first time when I was about 13 years old. In those days it was not easy for us Indonesians to get children books in English language, as bookshops sold only books in Indonesian language. English language adult novels you could get in second hand bookshops, but children books were rare. Even if you could get it in normal bookshops then the price would be prohibitive because they were imported. My dad usually sourced whatever he could from his expatriate work colleagues who held garage sales when they were leaving the country. One day he came home bringing a pile of Roald Dahl's books from one of these garage sales, and Danny the Champion of the World was on the top. Even though my dad has bought me children books in English language since I was a lot younger, at 13 I was just starting my formal English class at school so this book was perfect for me at that time and it became my favourite book for a very long time. Now, more than twenty years later I re-read the book again and I can understand why I really like the book. I even still like it very much.Danny lived only with his dad, because his mother died when he was still a baby. Danny’s dad fixed cars and owned a filling station. He’s a wonderful dad, a dad anyone would want to have, but he’s a bit eccentric. First of all, he lived in an old tiny Gypsy caravan, and that’s where Danny grew up. He also wanted Danny to learn to be a good mechanic first, before getting formal education. By the time Danny was seven years old he could already disassemble and reassemble machineries. Danny enjoyed living with his dad immensely because his dad always managed to find interesting and fun things for them to do together. But as Danny said himself, adults often kept dark secrets, and when he was nine years old Danny found out his dad’s dark secret. From then on they embarked on an exciting and dangerous adventure involving lots of pheasants.I am not entirely sure what makes this book so special to me. Maybe it was the gypsy caravan. Tree houses and caravans conjured up those images of semi dark warm and cosy room where everyone can huddle together. Or maybe it’s the relationship between Danny and his dad. Or most probably the exciting adventure. Among Roald Dahl’s books this one is the one that has less magical adventure. The adventure and the things that happened in this story felt so real it could be us. It’s a bit too difficult to ride Willy Wonka’s great glass elevator but we can live in a nice old caravan with an apple tree that gives you nice crispy apples everyday during the autumn.
    • 5/5
      The best heist story ever.
    • 5/5
      a sweet story of danny and time spent with his father. very nicely done.
    • 5/5
      This is my favorite kid book! Roald Dahl painted a winsome look back at an earlier, simpler time in English history. Danny is raised by his dad, in less traditional circumstances. Dad has a secret that he allows Danny to participate with, and it is the story of this big adventure. This book should be read by every father to every son. It is a great story for any father.