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‘What happens when he catches the dreams?’ I asked. ‘He imprisons them in glass bottles and screws the tops down tight,’ my father said. ‘He has thousands of these bottles in his cave.’ ‘Does he catch bad dreams as well as good ones?’ ‘Yes,’ my father said. ‘He catches both. But he only uses the good ones in his powders.’ ‘What does he do with the bad ones?’ ‘He explodes them.’ It is impossible to tell you how much I loved my father. When he was sitting close to me on my bunk I would reach out and slide my hand into his, and then he would fold his long fingers around my fist, holding it tight. ‘What does The BFG do with his powders after he has made them?’ I asked. ‘In the dead of night,’ my father said, ‘he goes prowling through the villages searching for houses where children are asleep. Because of his great height he can reach windows that are one and even two flights up, and when he finds a room with a sleeping child, he opens his suitcase...’ ‘His suitcase?’ I said. ‘The BFG always carries a suitcase and a blowpipe,’ my father said. ‘The blowpipe is as long as a lamp-post. The suitcase is for the powders. So he opens the suitcase and selects exactly the right powder... and he puts it into the blowpipe... and he slides the blowpipe in through the open window... and poof... he blows in the powder... and the powder floats around the room... and the child breathes it in...’ ‘And then what?’ I asked. ‘And then, Danny, the child begins to dream a marvellous and fantastic dream... and when the dream reaches its most marvellous and fantastic moment... then the magic powder really takes over... and suddenly the dream is not a dream any longer but a real happening... and the child is not asleep in bed... he is fully awake and is actually in the place of the dream and is taking part in the whole thing... I mean really taking part... in real life. More about that tomorrow. It’s getting late. Good night, Danny. Go to sleep.’ My father kissed me and then he turned down the wick of the little paraffin lamp until the


Do you think Danny’s father is a good storyteller? Why? 3


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