By Roald Dahl (author) , Quentin Blake, Quentin Blake (illustrator)
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A memoir of Roald Dahl's childhood containing some hilariously true stories, such as the great mouse plot of 1924, when an eight-year-old Dahl and his gobstopper-loving friends took a just revenge on the disgusting sweetshop owner Mrs Pratchett.
Roald Dahl was born in Wales of Norwegian parents – the child of a second marriage. His father and elder sister died when Roald was just three. His mother was left to raise two stepchildren and her own four children. Roald was her only son.
He had an unhappy time at school - at Llandaff Cathedral School, at St Peter’s prep school in Weston-super-Mare and then at Repton in Derbyshire.
Dahl’s unhappy time at school was to influence his writing greatly. He once said that what distinguished him from most other children’s writers was “this business of remembering what it was like to be young”. Roald’s childhood and schooldays are the subject of his autobiography Boy.
Since Roald Dahl’s death, his books have more than maintained their popularity. Total sales of the UK editions are around 37 million, with more than 1 million copies sold every year! Sales have grown particularly strongly in America where Dahl books are now achieving the bestselling status that curiously proved elusive during the author’s lifetime.
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The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Boy Tales of Childhood and determined it is suitable for children aged 7-10 years old
Boy Tales of Childhood features in the following genres: Featured Books for 7+ readers, Recommendations, Grammar, Spelling & Literature, Educational: Language, literature and literacy, Educational material, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Featured Books for 9+ readers
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Boy Tales of Childhood was written by Roald Dahl and published by Penguin Books Ltd
Boy Tales of Childhood has 218 pages
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