Boy : tales of childhood / Roald Dahl
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Puffin Books, 2009Description: 176 p. : ill. ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780142413814
- 014241381x
- FIC DAH
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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Fiction | MVS Library Main room-back corner | M- Biography (Juvenile) | BIO DAH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | donation | 4007387 |
Reprint. Originally published : Farrar, Straus & Giroux,1984
Starting-point: Papa and Mama -- Kindergarten, 1922-3 -- Llandaff Cathedral School, 1923-5 (age 7-9): Bicycle and the sweet-shop -- Great mouse plot -- Mr. Coombes -- Mrs. Pratchett's revenge -- Going to Norway -- Magic Island -- Visit to the doctor -- St. Peter's, 1925-9 (age 9-13): First day -- Writing home -- Matron -- Homesickness -- Drive in the motor-car -- Captain Hardcastle -- Little Ellis and the boil -- Goat's tobacco -- Repton and Shell, 1929-36 (age 13-20): Getting dressed for the big school -- Boazers -- Headmaster -- Chocolates -- Corkers -- Fagging -- Games and photography -- Goodbye school
Presents humorous anecdotes from the author's childhood which includes summer vacations in Norway and an English boarding school
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