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Books : Boy: Tales of ChildhoodIn association with Amazon.comby: Roald Dahl  List Price: $5.99 Price: $0.01 You Save: $5.98 (100%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914 EAN: 9780140318906 ISBN: 0140318909 Label: Puffin Manufacturer: Puffin Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 176 Publication Date: August 05, 1986 Publisher: Puffin Reading Level: Ages 9-12 Studio: Puffin Sales Rank: 1723228 Related Items: Editorial Review: Product Description: Filled with excitement, humor, and the unexpected, this entertaining collection of tales--inspired by Roald Dahl's remarkable childhood--are stories that are not easily forgotten. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Hilarious BookBoy 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 ... Read More Rating: - Delightful, dark - and thoroughly enjoyableI 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 ... Read More Rating: - 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.) ... Read More Rating: - Roald Dahl's lifeMy 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. Rating: - I've lost track of how often I've read this bookI adore reading and devour about 3-4 books a month, and I can safely say this is my favorite book of all time. I first read Boy when I was around 8. Now, nearly twenty years later, I still have that same copy. The cover is hanging on by a thread and the binding is in sad shape, but it sums up how I feel about the book: I have read it to death. No one tells a story or turns a phrase quite like Dahl. His descriptions of homemade Norwegian ice cream alone make the book worth reading! While not recommended ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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