Boy: Tales of Childhood

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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.

This beautiful edition of Boy, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the Roald Dahl Museum and is perfect for Dahl fans old and new.

So, enter a world where invention and mischief can be found on every page and where magic might be at the very tips of your fingers . . .

The Roald Dahl Classic Collection reinstates the versions of Dahls books that were published before the 2022 Puffin editions, aimed at newly independent young readers.

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A shimmering fabric of his yesterdays, the magic and the hurtObserver

Brilliantly coloured, sometimes grotesque and sometimes magicalSunday Times

As frightening and funny as his fictionNew York Times Book Review

Author Bio

Roald Dahl (Author)
Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. He was also the author of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG and many more brilliant stories.

Quentin Blake (Illustrator)
Quentin Blake has illustrated more than three hundred books and was Roald Dahl's favourite illustrator. In 1980 he won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal. In 1999 he became the first ever Children's Laureate and in 2013 he was knighted for services to illustration.