My favourite Roald ... pen-and-ink illustrations now, it’s kind of hard to see what I found so captivating, but I truly thought she was the most beautiful woman in the world. Dahl created ...

If there is anyone who knows the answer to these questions it is surely Quentin Blake, an artist whose illustrations, such as those of Roald Dahl characters, defined our childhood. Below ...

are both among Roald Dahl’s best. Dahl rewrote the whole thing and eventually arrived at the story we know and still love today, nearly three decades on. I was 14 in 1988, when Matilda came out ...