1. Does the giant have a prototype? Yes, he is the author Roald Dahl himself. One night when he told his daughter a bedtime story, he talked about a kind of magical powder that was blown into the bedroom through a long tube to make the sleeping person dream. The two daughters were very interested in it, but he hurried without explaining a few words. After leaving, after a while, when the daughters were almost asleep, he found a long ladder to climb from outside the house to the window of his daughter’s bedroom, and used a long pole to blow loudly into the room, sending his daughter "Okay." Dream". It was this father's mischief that drove the birth of the fairy tale "Good-eyed Giant".
2. "Good-hearted Giant" is derived from Dahl's novel "World Champion Danny". In the book, Danny's father will tell him bedtime stories every night. One of them is about "that story describes a huge, friendly giant called a big, friendly giant, or simply a good-eyed giant." . Dahl writes the setting of giants in these stories into "Good-Eye Giants."
3. The good-hearted giant made his debut in the illustration of "World Champion Danny" (published in 1975), created by Jill Bennett. The image of the giant is far from the current version. The illustrations in the book were auctioned off at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England, for a price of £85,000.
4. Dahl is accustomed to writing all the ideas he thought of into workbooks, and he would use them to find inspiration when creating new stories or characters. He turned these booklets into "Ideas Books" (Ideas Books). "The Good Eyed Giant" came from these inspirational books, and Dahl only made the giant's story public when he was 66 years old.
5. The protagonist of "Good-hearted Giant" was originally a boy named Jody. After Dahl's granddaughter Sophie was born, Dahl changed the protagonist in the book to a girl with the same name as the granddaughter.
6. The kind-hearted giant never went to school and only relies on a dictionary to learn words, so he often speaks funny language. This way of speaking is called "Gobblefunk", which means you turn words upside down and give them new extensions and meanings.
7. Most of the illustrations in Roald Dahl's children's literature are drawn by Quentin Blake. Although they had collaborated in "The Huge Crocodile", their first meeting was during the publication of "The Good Eyed Giant". It can be said that the help of the giant allowed the two to establish a long-term and successful cooperative relationship.
8. Dahl had a pair of brown suede Norwegian sandals, and he asked Blake to let the giants wear them. (This point further confirms that the prototype of the giant is Dahl himself.)
9. Stephen Locksberg, the editor who worked with Dahl, once suggested that the part of the book where the giant farts (whizzpop) in front of the queen be deleted. Dahl responded by saying, "I even thought about making the giant the queen's "Fart Commissioner". It may be vulgar, but you and I both know that children will like it very much, and this is a book for children."
10. Although it is generally believed that the archetype of the kind-eyed giant is the author himself, Roald Dahl once mentioned that part of his inspiration for the creation of the giant came from his good friend Wally Sanders. Wally is a construction worker who once built his new house in Buckinghamshire for Dahl. It is in this house Dahl created countless world-famous children's literature works. As described in the book, Wally is tall, with big ears, broad shoulders, and fingers like big bananas.
11. If you arrive at Roald Dahl's grave in Missenden, Great Britain, you will follow the giant's footprints from a small tree to his gravestone. You may leave coins and pencils on the ground, please remember not to pick them up, because the giant will collect them at the right time... (Hope there are beautiful fairy tales in reality)
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