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Boy: Tales of Childhood
by Roald Dahl
from Puffin
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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Hilarious Book 
Boy by Roald Dahl is an amazing book. It is one of the most hilarious books I have ever read. Some of the things that happened to him seemed pretty painful like getting his nose cut almost completely off. My favorite part of the book is when Roald Dahl and his friends put a dead mouse in the gobstopper jar in a candy store so that when the shopkeeper put her dirty fingers in the jar she would grab the mouse and not the gobstoppers.
Also reading this book I found out that Roald Dahl based some of his... more info
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Delightful, dark - and thoroughly enjoyable
I have never read any of Roald Dahl's children's stories, but have always wanted to. His first memoir, BOY, is a very slight volume, less than 200 pages, but it is full of perhaps the most delightful and whimsical vignettes of childhood ever penned. While it is true there are some very shocking references to beatings and "canings" which were apparently quite common in English public schools, administered by both the masters and the older boys, the overall tone of the book is one of wonder and fond... more info
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Pass the Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate bar, please!
BOY: TALES OF CHILDHOOD was a thoroughly enjoyable autobiography about the early years of British author Roald Dahl. I used to wonder how he came by such an unusual first name until I read that his family originally came from Norway. All of that and more is written in this small book, and some 81 five star reviews preceding mine attest to how truly entertaining it really is. Of particular interest to me were his years in several Public Schools (We here in the US know them as Private or Prep Schools.) where... more info
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Roald Dahl's life
My twin eight year old sons are just loving all the Roald Dahl books. This one in particular fascinates them as it is the story of his own life.
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