Colm O'Regan: I'm reading Roald Dahl to the kids — it's a balancing act

Reading Roald Dahl to a child means them being enraptured in a giant peach and then me digressing every now and then to explain why a nasty thing he wrote is nasty

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Reading to the children. 

In the early years it was sometimes a grind. Not because they weren’t adorable little snuggle monsters and the little Julia Donaldson’s impeccable rhyming metre wasn’t always a joy, it’s just that reading the same book over and over again breeds a bit of ennui so getting through to the end took concentration.