Boy: Tales of Childhood - Roald Dahl

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 ...

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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 ...

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As an English Teacher, I come across all manner of extracts from assorted novels in textbooks - selected paragraphs of Potter, or snippets of Orwell and Huxley chosen for some part of the language they contain. However, no author seems to feature as regularly as Roald Dahl; perhaps it's because his books are especially accessible, or perhaps there's something essentially English in character about his writing. In any case, I always enjoy coming across ...
...read dozens of times before are still delightfully funny, clever and fresh. Boy is the first part of Roald Dahl's autobiography, published in 1984 and covering the first twenty years of his life. From his earliest memories and childhood holidays up to the day he left school and set off for the world of work, this memoir recounts a range of the moments Dahl remembered most fondly. There are plenty of gaps here - Boy is more of a highlights reel than ...

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“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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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I first read this book when i was in year 6 when our teacher use to read use stories to keep us busy. Even though Roald Dahl describes his boarding school and grotesque and absolutely horrible i found myself at a boarding school in Oxford a couple of years later. My exparience wasn't anything like the book gladly but i did have my fair share of mean teachers! The book itself: The book is set in France, Great Britain and Norway. This is where Roald ...
...Roald Dahl and his past as the main character is Roald Dahl himself. In the book we are told about the schools he attended these are: Llandaff Cathedral School, St Peter's and Repton and shell. This book gives a brilliant impression of what children go through when they start school and whilst they are going through the teenage years of their life. Roald was very attached to his mother, this shows that Dahl was sensitive. He wrote several letters ...

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Roald Dahl was my all time favourite author when I was younger and now I still have many of his books, who can forget some of his classics like Charlie and The chocolate Factory, I even went to see this teatre it was brilliant. Matilda, The Witches, James and The Giant Peach, George's Marvellous Medicine were other good books written by him. I apologise if I have missed any good books out, but these are the ones I can remember at the top of my head. ...
...was very scared, but soon came to terms with it. I was so sad when he died he really did win a place in my heart. I have read Tales of the unexpected by him, he shows that he can write for adults as well as children. He is great writer in my mind. I didn’t like reading, but I always had time for his books. I think I will never forget this author, he made me read for the fun of it, and not because we were told, his style had something about, ...

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I first read this book when I was 12 years old, and have read it at least five times since. Roald Dahl, as we know was a man of great genius, but the almost auto-biographical account of Dahl's childhood made me both laugh and cry within one sentence. The full account includes real life events, dusted with Dahl's amazing imagination... Creating what feels like a fairy tale. "Boy, Tales of Childhood" is a refreshing change from the incredible fully ...
...insight into his life experiences, which may have led to some of the incredible books he also wrote. As much as I'd like to include some negative points, I fail to find any with this book. Recommended to everybody from age 2 to 102 years old, Boy will keep you trapped inside the mind Of Roald Dahl right until the end. Written in such a way that there is something for everybody; funny bits for little people, and anecdotal humour for grown-ups too. ...

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Boy takes you back in to the childhood of Roald Dahl, perhaps one of the most popular and well-read of all children's authors. It details his family life from just before he was, through to when he left school. It tells of his own personal journey, and of all of the exciting and interesting things that he became involved in - from planting a mouse in the local sweet shop, to the days he used to go on holiday back home to his native Norway - via about ...
...had a varied upbringing, but changed my mind as soon as I read these stories. If only I had been alive in his younger days, then I would have just loved to have been there as a 'fly on the wall' to witness all of these things. He also introduces you to many of his family and freinds, so much so that you almost feel that as a reader you have actually become a part of this world of his. He has such a way of describing things that they appear real even ...

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Welcome everyone! This book is about when Roald dahl waas young. Many remarkble things have happened to Roald dahl when he was a boy. No doubt proving some of the marvellous ideas for his later books. Like his stories, Dahls childhood tales are unmissable. A brilliantly coloured, sometimes grotesque and sometimes magical world - ' Sunday times ' There is phrase that made me cry which is its like a poem: ' thought out my young days at school and ...
...me......... Some are funny. Some are painfull. Some are unpleasent.......... allare true. I have read this book more than five times because its so good. In some of the pages there were things like people wacking people with kanes that bit truely made me cry........... Thankyou for reading my review i hope you enjoyed it! ...

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