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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.▼
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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....)
There is, of course, [[The Film of the Book|a film]]; a rather sweet one from 1989 starring [[Jeremy Irons]] and his son Samuel as the father and son, and Robbie Coltrane as Mr. Hazell.
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* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: Dahl's earlier short story, simply titled ''The Champion of the World'', had an identical pheasant-poaching scheme as the one employed toward the end of this book.
** Also in [[The Film of the Book]], Hazell is given an ulterior motive for attempting to run Danny and his father off their land: {{spoiler|he wants to sell his vast land to a developer so they can build an entire new town}}.
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* [[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.
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