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  1. Roald Dahl _ Danny the Champion of the

    On this Thursday, on this particular walk to school, there was an old frog croaking in the stream behind the hedge as we went by.'Can you hear him, Danny?''Yes,' I said,'That is a bullfrog calling to his wife. He does it by blowing out his dewlap and letting it go with a burp.''What is a dewlap?' I asked.'It's the loose skin on his throat. He can blow it up just like a balloon.''What happens when his wife hears him?''She goes hopping over to him. She is very happy to have been invited. But I'll tell you something very funny about the old bullfrog. He often becomes so pleased with the sound of his own voice that his wife has to nudge him several times before he'll stop his burping and turn round to hug her.'That made me laugh.'Dont laugh too loud,' he said, twinkling at me with his eyes. 'We men are not so very different from the bullfrog.
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  2. Roald Dahl _ Danny the Champion of the

    A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY
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  3. Roald Dahl _ Danny the Champion of the

    A message To the children who have read this book. When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important. A stodgy parent is no fun at all! What a child wants -and DESERVES- is a parent who is SPARKY!" - Danny, the champion of the world.
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  4. Roald Dahl _ Danny the Champion of the

    I will not pretend I wasn't petrified. I was. But mixed in with the awful fear was a glorious feeling of excitement. Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn't be exciting if they didn't.
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  5. Roald Dahl _ Danny the Champion of the

    I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself. A mouth-smile is different. You can fake a mouth-smile any time you want, simply by moving your lips. I've also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it. So watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you but his eyes stay the same. It's sure to be a phony.
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