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Boy: Tales of Childhood

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Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake, and Quentin Blake

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By Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake, and and, Quentin Blake

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Throughout his young days at school and just afterwards, a number of things happened to Roald Dahl, which made such a tremendous impression he never forgot them. Boy is the remarkable story of Roald Dahl’s childhood; tales of exciting and strange things – some funny, some frightening, all true.

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03 Sep 2024

How the chocolate tasting boxes where interesting to here the past.

29 Aug 2024

I really liked this book as it is full of hilarious stories about childhood and school days.

24 Aug 2024

The plot of this book is about Roald Dahl writing about his Family, School Years, And of course himself! I would recommend this book if you are interested in learning about the author: Roald Dahl.

21 Aug 2024

I don’t like that the boy gets smacked with a cane on his bottom by his Headteacher.
I like it because it is about Roald Dahl

11 Aug 2024

This book was amazing! It told me all about Roald Dahl who wrote some of the best children's books in history. You may never have heard of boy but most people will be able to recall Charlie and the Chocolate factory. You need to read this book.

04 Aug 2024

Boy is an interesting book to read; it tells you all about Roald Dahl when he was about six years old to when he got his first job. It’s a biography book with not too many pictures in it .
It teaches you about his childhood and how it was to live in that moment.
I would recommend it to people who like reading About an or this childhood

01 Aug 2024

This book was non fiction. It tells you more about Roald Dahl's life. It is funny, gripping and I wanted to read it again the second I finished it. I liked the part where the rat was put in gobstoppers. I also liked the fact that whenever Roald got caned in the book, he would have a picture of a cane and it would always say 'cane' or 'cane again' and I liked the other illustrations too. I'd recommend this book to anyone who likes history or finding out about people's lives and what things were like in the 1900s

26 Jul 2024

My favourite part of the book was when young Roald Dahl put goat's droppings into one of his sisters' future husband.
It is a mini autobiography.

23 Jul 2024

I really liked the diary and how it was all about Roald Dahl’s life. This book had lots of information and I could imagine the things he described about growing up.

23 Jul 2024

I loved this book but I thought it was scary when boy's nose was almost completely cut off!

23 Jul 2024

I loved this book but I thought it was scary when boy's nose was almost completely cut off!

05 Jul 2024

it was very good. like how you put every detail into it

03 Jun 2024

It Was Very Good His Nose Almost Fall Off Little Ellis & The Boil & Boarding School.

13 Jan 2024

I love this book because it brings us to a childhood from 100 years ago, but yet with so many similarities to what happens today (luckily not the physical violence!).
Throughout the book, one can find many of Roald Dahl’s fictional characters and settings inspirations.
A must read for people who enjoy Roald Dahl’s books and have read lots of them!

26 Dec 2023

Wonderfully funny autobiography as any story Roald Dahl had ever written.

23 Dec 2023

I liked it because it taught me a lot about what you have to go through to become a person like Roald Dahl.

20 Dec 2023

I loved it

13 Dec 2023

A nice read highlighting the energetic life of Roald Dahl.

12 Dec 2023

If you like this book, read the second book, Going Solo.

07 Sep 2023

I liked this book as it is about Roald Dahl’s life when he was little, and Roald Dahl is one of my favourite authors.

05 Sep 2023

I like this book because it told many facts about Road Dahl's life.

30 Aug 2023

Found it fascinating reading about Roald Dahl as a child

19 Aug 2023

Fantastic

13 Aug 2023

My favourite part was when he thought he had actually murdered someone! Plus the book was very funny and had lots of cool characters. The only thing I didn’t like was the end where they ended it on a cliffhanger!

09 Aug 2023

I liked this book finding out about Roald Dahl before he was an author.

03 Aug 2023

I liked the book because Roald Dahl told us about his childhood and it was very interesting.

28 Jul 2023

It was really interesting about Roald Dahl's life, how people behaved in the old times and everything else! I wished it would continue but I have the next book!

24 Jul 2023

It was really funny and enjoyable to read

22 Jul 2023

I liked it when Dahl was wearing funny clothes and his sisters laughed at him it was very interesting back then I definitely would recommend this book

20 Jul 2023

I would recommend it

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