Roald Dahl Day 2019: His Best 7 Characters – And Why We Love Them

But there’s also a gleeful dose of the grotesque, as in Boy’s childhood prank where he and his friends placed a dead mouse inside a jar of sweets – plus, said sweets are so lovingly described, you can see where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory came from. Turns out, despite a lack of trumpeting giants, enormous fruits or Oompa-Loompas, one of Dahl’s most interesting stories was his own.