Customer Reviews
Boy it's good - By: Mehajabeen Farid, 13 Jan 2008 
`Boy' is about Roald Dahl's childhood & it is as good as Matilda, BFG & the Twits. It's very imaginative & true an awfully strange pair. You can imagine bits of it like when they got caned for putting a dead mouse in the Sweet Shop lady's sweets, Roald Dahl went to a boarding school for boys as his secondary school & he went to a Catholic primary school. Roald Dahl wrote another book about his past but as a pilot of a fighter plane for the RAF in the Second World War, but that is another story which I have also reviews callled `Going Solo'. I have to say this is one of my favourite books of alll time. I would rate it 1000000000/10. I think anyone & everyone would enjoy is & some people might have met his before he died in 1990. A must read book!
the wonderful story of boy - By: , 24 Nov 2005 "boy" by roald dahl is a truely wonderfully written book. the book reads more like a story than a biography but it still gives you an insight into the amazing imagination of roald dahl.i have been a fan of roald dahl since my childhood but this book & its companion biography "going solo" are my two favorite books by this magnificent author. i would highly recommend this book
The Boy by Roald Dahl - By: , 20 Nov 2005 Lots of people know Roald Dahl by his fantastic books of Charlie & the chocolate factory or James & the giant peach. If wanted to find information about his early life, this book would be the place to look.
The Boy is sort of an early childhood autobiography. He says this isn’t a biography but reallly it is. The story is told in time order. For example a story about Roald’s Dad is told before Roald Dahl being born. If you enjoy short true stories then this is the book to read.
The piece of text is in sections Starting Point, Llandaff Cathedral School, St Peter’s & Repton & Shell. The sections are then put into stories. For example The Great Mouse Plot or the First Day. It also tells us the years it happened like St Peter’s; 1925-1929 (age 9-13). There are a lot of real life photos of Roald Dahl & his family. There are also he own drawing in there. For example there is some of Mrs Prachett. The stories in the book might be real or might be fictionalised. I just don’t know because this book wasn’t written at the time it was happening it was written about memories & these memories might be wrong. This book can tell you what schools were like at the 20s & 30s.
This piece of text has lots of stories so you don’t need to have a lot of time to read a whole story. You also need to be able to read different kinds of stories with cruelty in. You can read these stories to people because they are very entertaining. I don’t think you could make a play out of it like Peter Pan.
I read the text by myself. I told one story to my brothers & they reallly enjoyed it. I suppose you can only read this book if you know who Roald Dahl is. You don’t have to have read any of his books because it’s only about his childhood & not his career.
This book is reallly enjoyable & the stories he wrote in this book are brilliant. You find out memories of Roald’s childhood. If I had to write out a book about my childhood, it would never be as good as this book. Firstly because I haven’t even finished my childhood & secondly I haven’t had that many adventures.
The reason this book has been published is…………
1. Roald Dahl is a fabulous author & people will want to know about his childhood.
2. It has great Graphology
3. The audience can actuallly imagine what Roald Dahl looked like.
4. It has great stories which make you glue to the book.
5. It tells you about his family & friends.
Thanks for reading my first review. I hope I’ve encouraged you to read The Boy. Trust me if you don’t read this book you will miss out. Also if you’ve got a project about Roald Dahl this is the place to look.
boy - By: jamie, 21 Jul 2005 
Boy is a Auto biography of the famous author Roald Dahl. It explainas his childhood which he had some great adventures just like you & me. He had many children & espesiallly many jobs he even worked in different countries like Africa. Most of his family died at young age.Im not going to tell you any more youll have to read it & find out for yourself.
Excellent - By: Princess_of_Mirkwood, 07 Jun 2004 I love alll Roald Dahl's books; I read my first when I was about eight & never have stopped since. They were exciting (for a kid) & funny, too. But I always thought that Roald Dahl's life could never be quite as exciting as his stories.
I was SO wrong! Boy is great, even better than the best fiction that Roald Dahl wrote. From the Great Mouse Plot & Goat's Tobacco, you have to love alll his little escapades. It's like getting inside a little boy's head & following him around on his daily adventures. Fabulous... :)
