https://padlet.com/3105474/xwv0zdfzk2cz en-us 2017-01-06 14:23:55 UTC 2017-01-20 14:45:38 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/prod/161453206/cc97fea6a9735f0a89b50928af2224d7/download__1_.jpg 3105474 https://padlet.com/3105474/xwv0zdfzk2cz/wish/145692101 I used to be a fighter pilot. My first few books had descriptions of my war experiences, but I didn't start writing children's books until I had children of my own. A lot of the stories I wrote were exstentions of the bedtime stories I would tell them. My first children's book was called The Gremlins and I wrote it for Walt Disney, but since it didn't take off I didn´t write any more for a while.  ]]> 2017-01-06 14:37:16 UTC https://padlet.com/3105474/xwv0zdfzk2cz/wish/145692101 3105474 https://padlet.com/3105474/xwv0zdfzk2cz/wish/147709699 I am most known for the children´s books I wrote including Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and James and the Giant Peach.    ]]> 2017-01-18 00:55:37 UTC https://padlet.com/3105474/xwv0zdfzk2cz/wish/147709699 3105474 https://padlet.com/3105474/xwv0zdfzk2cz/wish/147710545 Being in the RAF has been the most exciting experiance of my life. A letter I wrote to my mama.  ]]> 2017-01-18 01:06:26 UTC https://padlet.com/3105474/xwv0zdfzk2cz/wish/147710545 3105474 https://padlet.com/3105474/xwv0zdfzk2cz/wish/147710674 2017-01-18 01:08:02 UTC https://padlet.com/3105474/xwv0zdfzk2cz/wish/147710674 3105474 https://padlet.com/3105474/xwv0zdfzk2cz/wish/147714378 Check Out what The Mirror wrote about me. ]]> 2017-01-18 01:41:45 UTC https://padlet.com/3105474/xwv0zdfzk2cz/wish/147714378 3105474 https://padlet.com/3105474/xwv0zdfzk2cz/wish/147804934 "Oh It was a scene of great tragedy and comedy all mixed up together, and now Robert Stanford was running full speed after the cook who was running after the lion. He was holding his rifle In both hands and shouting to the cook, 'Pingo! Pingo! Get out of the way so I can shoot the lion Pingo! ' But the cook ignored him and kept on running and the lion ignored everbody[...]carrying the woman proudly in his jaws, rather like a dog who is trotting off with a good bone. [...] Then Robert Sanford stopped, raised his rifle and took aim, and i thought surely he is not risking a shot at a moving lion while it's got a woman in it's jaws. There was an almighty crack as the big gun went off and I saw a spurt of dust just ahead of the lion. The lion stopped dead and turned his head, still with the woman in his jaws. He saw the arm waving screaming cook and he saw Robert Sanford and he saw me and he had certainly heard the rifle shot and seen the spurt of dust . He must have thought an army was coming after him because he instantaneously dropped the cook's wife on the ground and ran for cover. [...] I was certain that the grip of those terrible jaws would have ripped the woman's waist and stomach almost in two, but there she was sitting on the ground and smiling at the cook . [...] Are you absouloutley sure the simba didn't hurt you?' he asked her 'Did not his teeth go into your body?'. 'No bwana' the woman said laughing 'He carried me gentley as if I was one of his own cubs.' " ]]> 2017-01-18 13:57:11 UTC https://padlet.com/3105474/xwv0zdfzk2cz/wish/147804934 3105474 https://padlet.com/3105474/xwv0zdfzk2cz/wish/148205499 I once saw a deadly green mamba slither into Mr.Fuller´s front room. We called the snake man. A Scottish man who loved snakes and learned how to deal with all kinds of them. It was fascinating to watch how he carefully coaxed the snake out into the open and slipped a log fork looking thing around 
it´s neck. ]]> 2017-01-19 19:12:21 UTC https://padlet.com/3105474/xwv0zdfzk2cz/wish/148205499 3105474 https://padlet.com/3105474/xwv0zdfzk2cz/wish/148207909 " 'Hello' I said 'Mama is that you' she knew my voice at once." I had been away for 3 years and we had not spoken in that time. I got on the earlist train I could find and then a bus. When I arrived at my mother's cottage I stepped off the bus and there she was her arms open wide waiting for me. ]]> 2017-01-19 19:17:55 UTC https://padlet.com/3105474/xwv0zdfzk2cz/wish/148207909