Boy: Tales of Childhood

Authors: Dahl, Roald
Genres: Autobiography
Topics: Community, Family & Siblings, School Life
Lexile: 1020,
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
BISAC/Subject: JNF053010, JNF007000, JNF028000
ISBN: 9780698161870, Related ISBNs: 0140089179, 0140318909, 0141303050, 0141365536, 014241381X
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 176,
Audience: Children/juvenile
Synopsis: Find out where the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG got all his wonderful story ideas in this autobiographical account of his childhood! 

From his own life, of course! As full of excitement and the unexpected as his world-famous, best-selling books, Roald Dahl's tales of his own childhood are completely fascinating and fiendishly funny. Did you know that Roald Dahl nearly lost his nose in a car accident? Or that he was once a chocolate candy tester for Cadbury's? Have you heard about his involvement in the Great Mouse Plot of 1924? If not, you don’t yet know all there is to know about Roald Dahl. Sure to captivate and delight you, the boyhood antics of this master storyteller are not to be missed!
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