Roald Dahl children's novels in a survey published by "School Library Journal", a monthly with primarily US audience. The Top 100 included four books by Dahl, more than any other writer: "Matilda", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "The Witches", and "The BFG". In 2012, Dahl was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album cover – to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life he most admires. In a 2017 UK poll of the greatest authors, songwriters,
Roald Dahl bibliography Awards' Children's Author of the Year in 1990. In 2008 "The Times" placed Dahl 16th on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". He has been referred to by an anonymous writer for "The Independent" as "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century" On Dahl's death in 1990, Howard considered him "one of the most widely read and influential writers of our generation". Many of Dahl's works were used as the basis for films or television programmes. The following are where he is credited as the writer of the performed script. Roald Dahl