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Danny The Champion Of The World

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Danny was only four months old when his mother died. At the beginning of the book, he lives with his widowed father, William, in an old caravan behind the service station and garage owned and operated by his father. Danny and his father are very close and share pastimes like building and enjoying kites, fire balloons, and go karts. William is also an excellent storyteller and a version of The BFG is told to Danny as a bedtime story. The father and son have generally idyllic times despite their relative lack of financial means. Mr. Hazell is an unkind, wealthy local gentleman who had been to their filling station and threatened Danny with a hiding if there were fingerprints on Hazells silver Rolls Royce At the age of nine, Danny learns that his father is an avid poacher, as was his father's father. Shortly thereafter, Danny wakes at 2:10 am to find his father hasn't returned from his latest poaching venture on the property of the local beer magnate, Mr Hazell. Danny nervously borrows an Austin 7 from their garage to drive to the property and search for his father. Danny, unaware that the keepers depart after sunset, sneaks through the wood where finds his father incapacitated by a broken ankle in a trap intended for humans. Danny rescues his father and helps him home.

While his father recovers from his injury, he and Danny realize Mr. Hazell's annual pheasant shoot is approaching - an event to which he invites wealthy, powerful and influential people. Danny and his father decide to humiliate Mr Hazell by capturing all the pheasants in the forest. To accomplish this, they sew the contents of the sleeping pills prescribed to Danny's father by the village doctor, Doc Spencer, into raisins that the pheasants will eat; Danny's father calls this new method "Sleeping Beauty". They intend to poach a large number of pheasants immediately prior to an annual self-aggrandizing hunting event Mr Hazell holds in order to embarrass him. After having successfully captured 120 pheasants from Hazell's Wood, Danny and his father take a taxi (driven by a fellow poacher) to the local vicarage, where they hide the pheasants. Afterwards, they walk home.

The next day, the vicar's wife (Mrs Clipstone) delivers the sleeping pheasants to Danny's father's garage in a specially built baby carriage; however, the pheasants start flying out of the baby carriage as the soporific wears off. The birds do not travel far, as they're still sleepy. During the commotion, Mr. Hazell arrives and in a sputtering rage, confronts Danny, his father and Doc Spencer. With the help of Sergeant Enoch Samways, the village policeman, Danny and his father shoo the stunned pheasants over (and in some cases inside) Mr. Hazell's Rolls Royce, damaging the car's paintwork in the process. As Mr. Hazell leaves disgraced, many of the pheasants wake up completely and fly away in the opposite direction from Hazell's property. The book ends when Danny is hailed as "the champion of the world" by his father, Doc Spencer and Sgt. Samways. Six pheasants died of a sleeping pill overdose, so Doc Spencer gives two each to Sgt Samways, Mrs Clipstone and Danny and his father. Danny and his father then walk into town, intending to buy a new oven to cook their pheasants. They also discuss possibly attempting to poach trout from a local stream.

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Ketersediaan

3153-2018-PR

823 ROA d

Primary's Library (Primary)

Tersedia - Bahasa Inggris

Informasi Detail

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

823 ROA d

Penerbit

London : ., 2016

Deskripsi Fisik

214p.;ill.;20cm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780141371375

Klasifikasi

823 ROA d

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Subjek

Fiksi Inggris

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