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Roald Dahl's Creative Writing with Matilda: How to Write Spellbinding Speech

Roald Dahl's Creative Writing with Matilda: How to Write Spellbinding Speech

Summary

Create wonderful dialogue to give your characters a voice with the World's NUMBER ONE Storyteller!

Perfect for home learning, go on a creative adventure with Matilda and learn how to write MARVELLOUS conversations and MAGNIFICENT reported speech.

These super fun activities will help you to:

· Improve language and vocabulary skills
· Develop the tools you need to write your own stories
· Learn how to write brilliantly authentic dialogue, experiment with silence and reveal what a character is thinking

Roald Dahl's Creative Writing will spark your creativity, build your confidence and inspire you through the wonderful worlds of Roald Dahl's best loved stories!

Filled with top tips and ideas boxes, each book introduces techniques and methods to help you plan and write a phizz-whizzing story of your own!

About the authors

Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. He was also the author of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG and many more brilliant stories.
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Quentin Blake (Illustrator)

Quentin Blake has been drawing ever since he can remember. He taught illustration for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art, of which he is an honorary professor. He has won many prizes, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, the Eleanor Farjeon Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal, and in 1999 he was appointed the first Children’s Laureate. In the 2013 New Year’s Honours List he was knighted for services to illustration.
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