Boy: Tales of Childhood - Softcover

Book 1 of 2: Roald Dahl's Autobiography

Dahl, Roald

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Paperback. Pub Date :2013-07-04 Pages: 240 Language: English Publisher: Puffin Books BOY. Roald Dahls bestselling autobiography. is full of hilarious anecdotes about his childhood and school days.With fabulous new line drawings by Quentin Blake.An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.This is not an autobiography - Roald Dahl.This reissue includes 30 delightful new line drawings by the inimitable Quentin Blake.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 Dahls childhood; tales of exciting and strange things - some funny. some frightening. all true . Roald Dahl. the best-loved of childrens writers. was born in Wales of Norwegian parents.His books conti...

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Quentin Blake is one of Britain's most successful illustrators. He has illustrated nearly three hundred books and he was Roald Dahl's favourite illustrator. He has won many awards including the Whitbread Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal and taught for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art. In 1999 he became the first ever Children's Laureate and in 2013 he was knighted in the New Year's Honours.

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