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

By:

Dahl, Roald, 1916-1990 [author]

Contributor(s):

Blake, Quentin [illustrator]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Puffin Books, 2013Description: 176 pages : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780142413814

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

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

Summary: Presents humorous anecdotes from the author's childhood which includes summer vacations in Norway and an English boarding school.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Bagong Silangan Branch Reference Section	Circulation	C 92 D131b 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	127967d

Originally published: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,1984.