Boy

$16.99

SKU: 9780241677292

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Throughout his young days at school and just afterwards, a number of things happened to Roald Dahl, which made such a tremendous impression he never forgot them. Boy is the remarkable story of Roald Dahl’s childhood; tales of exciting and strange things – some funny, some frightening, all true.A shimmering fabric of his yesterdays, the magic and the hurt—Observer

Brilliantly coloured, sometimes grotesque and sometimes magical—Sunday Times

As frightening and funny as his fiction—New York Times Book ReviewQuentin Blake is one of Britain’s most successful illustrators. He has illustrated nearly three hundred books and he was Roald Dahl’s favourite illustrator. He has won many awards including the Whitbread Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal and taught for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art. In 1999 he became the first ever Children’s Laureate and in 2013 he was knighted in the New Year’s Honours.GB

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Dimensions 0.6000 × 5.0500 × 7.8000 in
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