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Find out where the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG got all his wonderful story ideas in this autobiographical account of his childhood! From his own life, of course! As full of excitement and the unexpected as his world-famous, best-selling books, Roald Dahl's tales of his own childhood are completely fascinating and fiendishly funny. Did you know that Roald Dahl nearly lost his nose in a car accident? Or that he was once a chocolate candy tester for Cadbury's? Have you heard about his involvement in the Great Mouse Plot of 1924? If not, you don't yet know all there is to know about Roald Dahl. Sure to captivate and delight you, the boyhood antics of this master storyteller are not to be missed!
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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 Review)
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Brilliantly coloured, sometimes grotesque and sometimes magical (Sunday Times)
As frightening and funny as his fiction (New York Times Book Review)
Roald Dahl's account of his childhood is now reissued in our beautiful hardback format, with - for the first time - Quentin Blake's stunning illustrations
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- PublisherViking Books for Young Readers
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 014241381X
- ISBN 13 9780142413814
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
- IllustratorBlake Quentin
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