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Boy : tales of childhood / Roald Dahl ; cover illustrations by Quentin Blake

By: Dahl, Roald [author].
Contributor(s): Blake, Quentin [illustrator].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Puffin Books, 2013Description: 176 pages : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780142413814.Subject(s): Dahl, Roald -- Childhood and youth | Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography
Contents:
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
Note(s):
Originally published: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,1984.
Summary: Presents humorous anecdotes from the author's childhood which includes summer vacations in Norway and an English boarding school.
Item type Current location Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Bagong Silangan Branch
Reference Section
Circulation C 92 D131b 2013 (Browse shelf) Available 127967d
Total holds: 0

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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