Boy: Tales of Childhood - Roald Dahl

Advantages: Great book, easy to read
Disadvantages: Time flies when you read it

November 1990 was a sad time for England. Not because the country’s two largest satellite broadcaster, Sky and British Satellite Broadcasting joined to form BSkyB, nor because we lost Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister. In fact, it was as far removed from these two incidents as you could possibly imagine. On 23rd November 1990, aged 74, Roald Dahl, creator of several of the world’s most engaging children’s books died as a result of a rare blood ...
...great talent whose imagery and imagination live on forever in books such as Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, The Witches and The BFG. Released in 1984, Boy is as close to an auto-biography as you can get. In fact, Dahl’s bold statement early in the book sums up his feelings: “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. I would never write a history ... Read review

Advantages: Eek they have these here too!
Disadvantages: Bums.

A long time ago, in 1916, a little boy was born to Norwegian parents living in South Wales. His father was a successful businessman, but idiosyncratic to say the least. He wanted his children to have an appreciation of beauty, so before they were born he spent hours taking his pregnant wife on "glorious walks" to take in the natural splendour of the countryside. In this way he hoped that the wonder of nature and an appreciation of it would somehow ...
...had only one arm, but got along just fine with the aid of various ingenious gadgets he'd invented for himself, like the sharpened fork which acted as all three forms of cutlery, which he kept in a special case in his pocket. He also kept a long and involved diary. Sadly, the little boy's father died when he was still very young. The little boy was Roald Dahl and doesn't it sound like the little boy grew up to be very like his father - an inveterate ... Read review

Advantages: great book lots of interesting scenes
Disadvantages: could go ino more detail

“Boy” is an autobiography by Roald Dahl and describes his eventful childhood. The book describes his holidays to Norway, his schooldays and his family history. It describes his eventful everyday life and the unusual adventures within it. The book begins in an exciting fashion as it describes his very unusual upbringing and members of his family. The main character is obviously Roald Dahl himself as it is an autobiography and subsequently the book ...
...that appear quite a lot include his friends, his family – his mother, ancient-sister, stepfather, sisters and brothers, a stern shopkeeper and the school matron. Even though Dahl is unable to remember the characters names, he makes his characters memorable with his vivid description of them. One of my most memorable characters in “Boy” is the Math’s teacher who did not know anything about Maths, but spent most of the time telling exciting stories ... Read review

Advantages: Interesting & Informative
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I love this book so much, I made my older sister go out and buy it for me straight away!!(Much to her distress!!) It is the interesting account of Roald Dahl's childhood, filled with facts and photographs, so you can really imagine yourself living there. I have read most of Roald Dahl's books, but this will always be my favourite because it's the only one in which we actually meet him, and discover his past, and live through his childhood with ... Read review

Advantages: Great Read, Easy for young children
Disadvantages: time goes to quick when you read it

I have read this book so many times and I loved it from the first time I read it to the last time I read it. You can never get bored with this book. I am a huge fan of Roald Dahl and I think his books are great. This has to be my favorite book of his as it has funny bits in it and serious bits in it. I think all children's books should have some serious bits in it. This book is an autobiography from Roald Dahl himself telling events in his life. ...
...parts of his life. I will tell about them now. ~~~Starting Point~~~ In this part of the book there is 2 chapters `Papa and Mama' and `Kindergarten' as you can probably tell the chapter `Papa and Mama' is all about his mum and dad, and the chapter `Kindergarten' is all about his time in nursery(Kindergarten). This chapter is ok but it isn't exciting. ~~~Llandaff Cathedral School-1923-5(Aged 7-9)~~~ This part of the book is really exciting. There ... Read review