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David Wood

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DAVID WOOD began writing as a student at Oxford University in the sixties.

He wrote his first play for children in 1967 and has since written over sixty more.
They are performed all over the world and include THE GINGERBREAD MAN (nine London seasons), THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT WENT TO SEE... (six London seasons, co-written with Sheila Ruskin), THE SELFISH SHELLFISH, THE SEE-SAW TREE, SAVE THE HUMAN (from the story he wrote with cartoonist Tony Husband), THE IDEAL GNOME EXPEDITION and THE PLOTTERS OF CABBAGE PATCH CORNER.

His stage adaptations of well-known books include Dick King-Smith's BABE THE SHEEP-PIG, Roald Dahl's THE BFG and THE WITCHES (both of which played long tours and two West End seasons), THE TWITS, JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH an...more

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Average rating: 4.05 · 505 ratings · 64 reviews · 138 distinct works

	The BFG: A Set of Plays by David Wood (Adapter), Roald Dahl 426 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 1996 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Witches: Plays for Children 402 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Twits: A Play by David Wood (Adapter), Roald Dahl 385 avg rating — 34 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator) 393 avg rating — 19292 ratings — published 1970 — 103 editions	My rating:
	The Phantom Cat of the Opera by David Wood, Gaston Leroux 382 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	More Adventures Of Noddy by David Wood, Enid Blyton 433 avg rating — 9 ratings	My rating:
	James And The Giant Peach 388 avg rating — 8 ratings	My rating:
	Under The Bed 429 avg rating — 7 ratings	My rating:
	Genesis: The First Book of Revelations 383 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1986	My rating:
	You Don't Know What You've Got... Tales of Loss and Dispossession 380 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?”
― David Wood

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