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Line 1: {{work}} {{Multiple Works Need Separate Pages}} A 1975 [[Roald Dahl]] book about Danny, a [[Missing Mom\|half-orphan]] living with his father, a man with a certain fondness for poaching pheasants, in a caravan next to his father's petrol station/garage on a rather desirable plot in the [[Arcadia\|English countryside]]. Mr. Hazell, the rich land-owner from whose land pheasants are poached, is less than amused by this hobby and attempts to thwart Danny's efforts.▼ {{Infobox book \| title = Danny, the Champion of the World \| image = \| caption = \| author = Roald Dahl \| central theme = \| elevator pitch = \| genre = \| publication date = February 14, 1975 \| source page exists = \| wiki URL = \| wiki name = }} ▲A'''''Danny, the Champion of the World''''' is a 1975 [[Roald Dahl]] book about Danny, a [[Missing Mom\|half-orphan]] living with his father, a man with a certain fondness for poaching pheasants, in a caravan next to his father's petrol station/garage on a rather desirable plot in the [[Arcadia\|English countryside]]. Mr. Hazell, the rich land-owner from whose land pheasants are poached, is less than amused by this hobby and attempts to thwart Danny's efforts. Danny, however, comes up with a plan {{spoiler\|to poach all of the pheasants just before the big shoot Mr. Hazell has organised, thereby becoming the pheasant-poaching champion of the world}}. All very sweet and lovely, unless you're a pheasant. (Though even then, it has to beat the fate Hazell had in mind for them....) Line 38 ⟶ 52: * [[Write Who You Know]]: Captain Lancaster was based on one of Roald Dahl's teachers. As noted above under [[Author Appeal]], Dahl loves talking about his childhood. {{The Big Read}} {{reflist}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Children's Literature]] [[Category:~~Danny, the Champion~~Literature of the ~~World~~1970s]] [[Category:Films of the 1980s]] [[Category:Made for TV Movie]]