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The novel [|“Boy tales of childhood”] is written by Roald Dahl in 1984 and illustrations by Quentin Blake. It was the first autobiographical that Roald Dahl has ever written and in the book he said that he and his family were travelling to “Tjøme” in Norway every summer holiday from he was 4 - 17 years old. He said that when they traveled to Norway, it feels like travelling home. He was born 13th September 1961 in Llandaff, Wales in the middle of the World War One and he died 23rd November 1990 in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire. Both of his parents were Norwegian but he has lived in Norway and Britain. He was a Norwegian/British author who has written several collections of short stories and children’s books and some of them have been filmed. From 1960th he lived in Gipsy House, Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire where he wrote most of his books.

Roald Dahl when he was a littel boy(1925.)

The novel “Boy tales of childhood” is an autobiographical about Roald Dahl’s life until he was 20 years old. Almost the whole book describes his life in kindergarten, the summer holidays in Norway and when he went to school in Wales and England. The whole novel goes between 20 years and he tells it in the past. He went on St. Peter’s in England where he went from he was 9 – 13 years old. Every Sunday all the students wrote letters to there family and he wrote letters to his mother until he died and have then wrote more then 1500 letters. In the novel he tells about the school’s rules, rituals, punishment and he has never forgotten how hard this was. media type="youtube" key="SLtEzpFoBJQ" height="385" width="640" [] [] []