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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Dahl, Roald.
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Dahl, Roald -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile literature.
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More about Boy : Roald Dahl's tales from childhood / Roald Dahl.
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Dahl, Roald.
New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2009.
Subjects
Dahl, Roald -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
9780374350550 : $24.99
0374350558
Description:
223 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Edition:
1st American ed.
Contents:
Starting-point -- Papa and Mama -- More about Mama -- Kindergarten, 1922/3 -- A grand time -- Llandaff Cathedral School, 1923/5 (age 7/9) -- The bicycle and the sweet-shop -- The great mouse plot -- A life without sweets -- Going to Norway -- The magic island -- A visit to the doctor -- The last lap -- St. Peter's, 1925/9 (age 9-13) -- First day -- Writing home -- The matron -- Homesickness -- A drive in the motor-car -- The Maccano chariot -- Captain Hardcastle -- How I became a writer -- Little Ellis and the boil -- Goat's tobacco -- Repton and Shell, 1929/36 (age 13/20) -- Getting dressed for the big school -- Boazers -- Painful punishments -- The headmaster -- Chocolates -- Horrid little boys and girls -- Corkers -- Fagging -- That awful cold bath -- Games and photography -- Goodbye school -- P.S -- Excerpt from Going solo -- A Dahl-tastic quiz.
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Humorous anecdotes from the author's childhood describe summer vacations in Norway and life in an English boarding school.
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Hawaii State Library
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B Dahl Da
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