Boy: Tales of Childhood (in English) - roald dahl

Boy: Tales of Childhood is the story of Roald Dahl`s very own boyhood. Including takes of sweet-shops and chocolate, mean old ladies and a Great Mouse Plot - the inspiration for some of his most marvellous storybooks in the years to come. These tales are full of exciting and strange things - some funny, some frightening, all true. `An autobiography is a book a person writes about their own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. This is not an autobiogrpahy` - Roald Dahl. Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children`s writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after a monumental bash on the head, sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990. Quentin Blake is one of the best-known and best-loved children`s illustrators and it`s impossible now to think of Roald Dahl`s writings without imagining Quentin Blake`s illustrations.