Boy: Tales of Childhood (Puffin Story Books)

by RoaldDahl (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1986

  $3.40

  In Boy, Roald Dahl recounts his days as a child growing up in England. From his years as a prankster at boarding school to his envious position as a chocolate tester for Cadbury's, Roald Dahl's boyhood was as full of excitement and the unexpected as are his world-famous, best-selling books. Packed with anecdotes -- some funny, some painful, all interesting -- this is a book that's sure to please.

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.40

  'Throughout my young days at school and just afterwards a number of things happened to me that I have never forgotten ...' Boy is a funny, insightful and at times grotesque glimpse into the early life of Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors. We discover his experiences of the English public school system, the idyllic paradise of summer holidays in Norway, the pleasures (and pains) of the sweetshop, and how it is that he avoided being a Boazer. This is the unadulterated childhood - sad and funny, macabre and delightful - that inspired our most-loved children's writer.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1986

  $3.44

  I sat down in assembly one day and started to read this book to my two hundred and forty students, deciding that I would stop when restlessness became too obvious. I went on...and on...and on. In the end I had to stop before the school seized up, and still the children clamoured for more. Gerald Haigh, TES