About Leonardo DiCaprio. American actor and film producer, Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio, has an estimated net worth of $245 million. As the blond, blue-eyed icon for millions of teenage girls and more than a few boys everywhere, Leonardo DiCaprio emerged from relative television obscurity to become perhaps the hottest under-30 actor of the 1990s.
The Selection Series. This article is about the series. For other uses, see The Selection (disambiguation). The Selection Series is a five-novel series of dystopian/romance young adult novels by author Kiera Cass. It follows the journey of America Singer for the first three novels of this series.
Before James and the Giant Peach, Dahl, who was from England, had only written stories for adults, but in 1959, he began writing for children. He proved to be a talented children's author. James and the Giant Peach became very popular and is still read by many children today. Dahl published the book in 1961 in the United States, with the same publisher he had worked with on some of his short stories for adults, Alfred A. Knopf.