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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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The great and daring mouse plotI kept to the rear of the group, and when I saw Mrs. Pratchett turn her head away for a couple of seconds to fish a Sherbet Sucker out of the box, I lifted the heavy glass lid of the Gobstopper jar and dropped the mouse in. Then I replaced the lid as silently as possible. My heart was thumping like mad and my hands had gone all sweaty. And one Bootlace, please, I heard Thwaites saying. When I turned around, I saw Mrs. Pratchett holding out the Bootlace in her filthy fingers. I don t want all the lot of you troopin in ere if only one of you is buyin , she screamed at us. Now beat it! Go on, get out! As soon as we were outside, we broke into a run. Did you do it? they shouted at me. Of course I did! I said. Well done you! they cried. What a super show! I felt like a hero. I was a hero. It was marvelous to be so popular.Puffin Books by Roald DahlThe BFGBoy: Tales of ChildhoodCharlie and the Chocolate FactoryCharlie and the Great Glass ElevatorDanny the Champion of the WorldDirty BeastsThe Enormous CrocodileEsio TrotFantastic Mr. FoxGeorge s Marvelous MedicineThe Giraffe and the Pelly and MeGoing SoloJames and the Giant PeachThe Magic FingerMatildaThe MinpinsThe Missing Golden Ticketand Other Splendiferous SecretsRoald Dahl s Revolting RhymesThe TwitsThe Vicar of NibbleswickeThe WitchesThe Wonderful Story of Henry SugarROALD
DAHLBOYTales of ChildhoodAn autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.This is not an autobiography. I would never write a history of myself. On the other hand, throughout my young days at school and just afterwards a number of things happened to me that I have never forgotten.None of these things is important, but each of them made such a tremendous impression on me that I have never been able to get them out of my mind. Each of them, even after a lapse of fifty and sometimes sixty years, has remained seared on my memory.I didn t have to search for any of them. All I had to do was skim them off the top of my consciousness and write them down.Some are funny. Some are painful. Some are unpleasant. I suppose that is why I have always remembered them so vividly. All are true.R.D.THERE S MORE TO ROALD DAHL THAN GREAT STORIESÿ.ÿ.ÿ.Did you know that 10% of author royalties from this book go to help the work of the Roald Dahl charities?Roald Dahl s Marvellous Children s Charity exists to make life better for seriously ill children because it believes that every child has the right to a marvellous life.This marvellous charity helps thousands of children each year living with serious conditions of the blood and the brain causes important to Roald Dahl in his lifetime whether by providing nurses, equipment or toys for today s children in the UK, or helping tomorrow s children everywhere through pioneering research.Can you do something marvellous to help others?Find out how at (...) Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, based in Great Missenden just outside London, is in the Buckinghamshire village where Roald Dahl lived and wrote. At the heart of the Museum, created to inspire a love of reading and writing, is his unique  

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Roald Dahl; Illustrated by Quentin Blake