The author who gained notoriety for classics like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach has inspired Disney’s latest fantasy adventure film, The BFG. I always preferred getting lost in made-up worlds and stories, and by early-elementary school, I was already reading works by Roald Dahl, Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume. It was rare to find me without a book-in-hand, and my memories of sitting next to my mother as she read to me are fuzzy. ![]() ![]() The moment I began stringing letters together to form words, and words to form sentences, opened up an imaginative, literary world.
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