Danny the Champion of the World

Danny the Champion of the World is a book by Roald Dahl, that in 1975 in the English and in 1976, translated by Harriet Freezer in the Dutch appeared. The book won in 1977 in Netherlands and Zilveren Griffel. In 1989, the book was made into a film. The book also appeared In 2006 as audiobook, read by Jan Mix. ==Brief summary[ Edit] == Danny lives with his father at a gas station. His father teaches him before he goes to school how he should get a car engine apart and need to put together. He also does nice things with Daan, such as flying a kite and proves a homemade fire balloon. One night his father only comes home late, and then comes the secret to top: his father is poacher of pheasants and his grandfather was still a much larger poacher. Danny invents himself a syrup method. In the forest of Mr. Hazel, with whom they have a bone to pick, they still carry the pheasants raisins with sleeping medication. Catch them one hundred and twenty pheasants, and thus is Danny a world champion. If they are at home with the pheasants, escape a lot of, because they wake up. Mr. Hazel, which pick up story, captures bone and his white Rolls-Royce becomes corrupted and soiled. Also, there remain enough pheasants for Daan and his father as "deserved".