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Starting-point -- Papa and Mama -- More about Mama -- Kindergarten, 1922/3 -- A grand time -- Llandaff Cathedral School, 1923/5 (age 7/9) -- The bicycle and the sweet-shop -- The great mouse plot -- A life without sweets -- Going to Norway -- The magic island -- A visit to the doctor -- The last lap -- St. Peter's, 1925/9 (age 9-13) -- First day -- Writing home -- The matron -- Homesickness -- A drive in the motor-car -- The Maccano chariot -- Captain Hardcastle -- How I became a writer -- Little Ellis and the boil -- Goat's tobacco -- Repton and Shell, 1929/36 (age 13/20) -- Getting dressed for the big school -- Boazers -- Painful punishments -- The headmaster -- Chocolates -- Horrid little boys and girls -- Corkers -- Fagging -- That awful cold bath -- Games and photography -- Goodbye school -- P.S -- Excerpt from Going solo -- A Dahl-tastic quiz.

More about Boy : Roald Dahl's tales from childhood / Roald Dahl.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2009.Edition: 1st American edDescription: 223 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780374350550
  • 9780142414989
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823/.914 B 22
LOC classification:
  • PR6054.A35 Z46 2009
Contents:
Starting-point -- Papa and Mama -- More about Mama -- Kindergarten, 1922/3 -- A grand time -- Llandaff Cathedral School, 1923/5 (age 7/9) -- The bicycle and the sweet-shop -- The great mouse plot -- A life without sweets -- Going to Norway -- The magic island -- A visit to the doctor -- The last lap -- St. Peter's, 1925/9 (age 9-13) -- First day -- Writing home -- The matron -- Homesickness -- A drive in the motor-car -- The Maccano chariot -- Captain Hardcastle -- How I became a writer -- Little Ellis and the boil -- Goat's tobacco -- Repton and Shell, 1929/36 (age 13/20) -- Getting dressed for the big school -- Boazers -- Painful punishments -- The headmaster -- Chocolates -- Horrid little boys and girls -- Corkers -- Fagging -- That awful cold bath -- Games and photography -- Goodbye school -- P.S -- Excerpt from Going solo -- A Dahl-tastic quiz.
Summary: Humorous anecdotes from the author's childhood describe summer vacations in Norway and life in an English boarding school.
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Originally published: London : Puffin Books, 2008.

Starting-point -- Papa and Mama -- More about Mama -- Kindergarten, 1922/3 -- A grand time -- Llandaff Cathedral School, 1923/5 (age 7/9) -- The bicycle and the sweet-shop -- The great mouse plot -- A life without sweets -- Going to Norway -- The magic island -- A visit to the doctor -- The last lap -- St. Peter's, 1925/9 (age 9-13) -- First day -- Writing home -- The matron -- Homesickness -- A drive in the motor-car -- The Maccano chariot -- Captain Hardcastle -- How I became a writer -- Little Ellis and the boil -- Goat's tobacco -- Repton and Shell, 1929/36 (age 13/20) -- Getting dressed for the big school -- Boazers -- Painful punishments -- The headmaster -- Chocolates -- Horrid little boys and girls -- Corkers -- Fagging -- That awful cold bath -- Games and photography -- Goodbye school -- P.S -- Excerpt from Going solo -- A Dahl-tastic quiz.

Humorous anecdotes from the author's childhood describe summer vacations in Norway and life in an English boarding school.

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