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Il libro è una presentazione discorsiva dei diversi tipi di energia che esistono in natura (meccanica, termica, radiante, nucleare...). Diversi argomenti fondamentali sono discussi come premesse all'introduzione dei vari tipi di energia. Il libro è in polemica con le tendenze positivistiche del Novecento che hanno cercato di eliminare dalle scienze naturali la volontà di affrontare correttamente i segreti della natura. Il capitolo finale descrive i problemi ambientali generati dall'impetuoso sviluppo dei consumi energetici.
About the author
Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. He was also the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG and many more brilliant stories. He remains THE WORLD'S NUMBER ONE STORYTELLER.Quentin Blake has illustrated more than three hundred books and was Roald Dahl's favourite illustrator. In 1980 he won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal. In 1999 he became the first ever Children's Laureate and in 2013 he was knighted for services to illustration.
Summary
James and the Giant Peach is a favourite tale of the most marvellous adventure by Roald Dahl.
An enormous escaped rhinoceros from London Zoo has eaten James's parents. And it gets worse! James is packed off to live with his two really horrible aunts, Sponge and Spiker. Poor James is miserable, until something peculiar happens and James finds himself on the most wonderful and extraordinary journey he could ever imagine . . .
"A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero" David Walliams
***with an exciting look into Roald Dahl's world***
Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after "a monumental bash on the head", sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990.
Quentin Blake is one of the best-known and best-loved children's illustrators and it's impossible now to think of Roald Dahl's writings without imagining Quentin Blake's illustrations.
