Danny, the Champion of the World

Danny or pheasant hunting (AKA Danny - The Champion of the World) is a 1975 children's book, published in the Norwegian- Welsh author Roald Dahl. The illustrations were made Sir Quentin Blake. The German edition, translated by Sybil Gräfin Schönfeldt used since appeared in the 1977 Random House, Reinbek.

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Danny lives with his father in a small gypsy caravan behind their gas station. One day, when Danny wakes up in the middle of the night, he noticed that his father is not there. When the father returns, he tells Danny his secret: he was before Danny's birth a poacher of passion and it has the addiction to this adventure now driven back into the forest by Victor hazel. He tells Danny that same night all over the pheasant poaching.

Danny's grandfather was the best poacher of all time. He discovered that pheasants are crazy about raisins and thought a lot of tricks to catch them. So he prepared raisins by a horse hair through put, which was slightly longer than the raisin wide. This bite was the pheasant in his throat, and he remained in place so that he could be caught by hand. Another method was to put the raisins in small, conical bags, whose upper edge was inside coated with adhesive. These bags were placed with the top down quite loose in the ground. If a pheasant pecked by the Raisin, the bag got stuck on his head, and he was practically blind. In this state, it remained on the spot.

In a further test of the Poaching of the father falls into a pit, who excavated the rangers as a trap. Together with Danny, he decides to take revenge on Victor hazel. Danny is enthusiastic and thinks himself a new trick from poachers, they want to try out in the forest of Mr. Victor Hazel. Using the tricks they want to ensure that the pheasants fall during sleep from the trees. They sneak into Mr. Hasels forest and feed the pheasants the prepared with sleeping powder raisins. First, the new method seems to fail, but then drop the pheasants.

With rich booty they return to their station. Thus, the missing pheasants can not be found at Danny and his father, they bring them to Mrs. Clipstone, wife of the village priest. After some time, Mrs. Clipstone brings the pheasants with a custom built stroller back to the gas station, but the pheasants awake and fluttering sleepily. Just at that moment also appears Victor hazel and Danny's father accused of poaching. With the help of the village policeman, the waves are smoothed, Victor Hasel retires, and it even remains the discovery that a few pheasants have remained successful poachers.

  • Literary work
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Literature ( English )
  • Children's Literature
  • Factory by Roald Dahl
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