Boy : tales of childhood / Roald Dahl ; cover illustrations by Quentin Blake
By: Dahl, Roald [author].
Contributor(s): Blake, Quentin [illustrator].
Material type: BookPublisher: 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 -- BiographyItem type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Book | Bagong Silangan Branch Reference Section | Circulation | C 92 D131b 2013 (Browse shelf) | Available | 127967d |
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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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