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DONALD STURROCK is an award-winning TV film producer and a librettist who has been the artistic director of the Roald Dahl Foundation since 1992. He grew up in England and South America, attended Oxford University, and joined BBC Television’s Music and Arts Department in 1983. In 1995 Sturrock directed an acclaimed BBC television version of his own adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Little Red Riding Hood with Danny DeVito, Ian Holm, and Julie Walters. In 1998, at the Los Angeles Opera, Sturrock also directed the world premiere of Fantastic Mr. Fox, an opera based on Dahl’s book, adapted by Sturrock, and with designs by Gerald Scarfe. His children’s opera Keepers of the Night premiered in Los Angeles in 2007. Storyteller is his first book.

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James and The Giant Peach

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4.04 avg rating — 515,001 ratings — published 1961 — 71 editions
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Fantastic Mr. Fox

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4.08 avg rating — 147,383 ratings — published 1970 — 358 editions
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George's Marvellous Medicine

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4.02 avg rating — 99,509 ratings — published 1981 — 260 editions
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Danny the Champion of the W...

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Storyteller: The Authorized...

3.88 avg rating — 1,459 ratings — published 2010 — 32 editions
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The Roald Dahl Collection (...

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Love from Boy: Roald Dahl's...

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“Also and an excuse is that someone is singing downstairs and the noise closely resembles that of a fly's kneecap rattled about in a bilious buttercup, both having kidney trouble and lumbago.
Love from Roald”
Donald Sturrock

“Whether it was true or false seems ultimately of little importance.
Donald Sturrock in 'Storyteller. The Life of Roald Dahl”
Donald Sturrock

“On Wednesday we got off work to go welcome King George V and his wife. ... Quite fun seeing George and spouse, but event the old boy himself didn't arouse in me those instincts which prompted a woman on my right to fling her arms around Hooper as the King came passed, exclaiming “the King! the King!” much to the embarrassment of uncomfortable Hooper, whose face took on the delicate hues of some of the finer beetroots which, by the way, can be bough quite cheaply at any grocer, green of course.”
Donald Sturrock, Love from Boy: Roald Dahl's Letters to His Mother

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