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One other trope that he often averts is [[Infant Immortality]], though mostly off screen - kids can be hurt, and even killed or eaten, though these are almost always [[Red Shirt]]s. Another, subtler trademark of Dahl's is his [[Author Appeal|love of nostalgia]] for his own childhood (with which he generally manages to avoid alienating his younger readers) and his great love of [[Food Porn]]. Almost all of the [[Happy Ending|happy endings]] in his work revolve, in some way, around food. Although many of them [[Bittersweet Ending|aren't exactly happy]].
Traditionally, his books are illustrated by Quentin Blake, master of loopy sketchiness. Almost all of his juvenile books have been made into movies—the iconic ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]'' more than once—and, curiously, no two of these movies were made by the same people (though [[Henry Selick]] almost broke this trend; after making ''James and the Giant Peach'', he was slated to direct ''Fantastic Mr. Fox'', but left to work on ''Coraline'' instead).
He was born on September 13, and wrote two autobiographies:
Most controversially (and the obvious reason why he never received a knighthood or other official UK honours) he was also quite the anti-Semite:
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