There have been few authors who have captured children’s imaginations quite like Roald Dahl.
His dark humour and mischievous personality shone throughout his novels and he displayed a kind of writing style that few other authors managed to achieve – he didn’t treat his readers like they were children and he wasn’t scared of displaying a few of the harsher realities of life.
On what would have been Roald Dahl’s 99th birthday, we take a look at some of the worries he left us with after reading his most famous children’s stories.
1. That worms would get mixed in with your spaghetti
After Mrs Twit’s horrible trick, we always looked a little closer at the spaghetti dished up for dinner.