- "A true genius... Roald Dahl is my hero" - David Walliams Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world"s No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake"s inimitable artwork. The well-loved story of a big friendly giant who spirits a child out of bed to the land of the child-eating giants. Every night, when the world is sleeping, big gruesome giants guzzle up whoppsy-whiffling human beans. And there"s only one giant who can stop them - the BFG. He"s the kindest giant there is and, with his friend Sophie in his top pocket, he sets out to rid the world of the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater and all their rotsome friends forever... Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children"s writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after a monumental bash on the head, sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990. Quentin Blake is one of the best-known and best-loved children"s illustrators and it"s impossible now to think of Roald Dahl"s writings without imagining Quentin Blake"s illustrations.