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Boy: Tales of Childhood

Boy: Tales of Childhood

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Funny, little Boy
Review: The book is a easyreader. It describes the childhood of Roald Dahl himself. But notice this - it is not a biography. It is just funny tales of real things that happened to him. Roald Dahl has Norwegian parents, but grew up in Wales, and went to boarding school in England. He tells about pranks, holidays, teachers, his family, and more. We had good laughts when Roald Dahl found a dead rat, and when the matrone stops a boy from snoring. It is easy for us to picture what life was like those days. We enjoyed it.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Boy
Review: We didn't like the book very much. Because: It was not so intersting to here about Roald Dahls lifestory. We guess that he had a exciting life, but as you know it's more fun to experience the episode by yourself, than to read about Roalds stories. Some of the episodes was fun, like when a drunken doctor amputeded his fathers arm. And the carcras was also fun. But sometimes the book became "to funny", and you most of all wanted to cry..... That's the reason that we only give the book to stars.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Describing a book about a childhood
Review: We think the book was pretty good, because of the descriptions of the different incidents. We got the chance to look into the English school system from the old days. How the boys got punished with the cane, and about the teachers behaviour towards the pupils. We also liked Roald Dahl's exact description on how things worked and looked like. For instance describing his different pranks and his different teachers.

To sum up: This book was an easy reader, which gave us the opportunities to learn different words and phrases! :)

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Book review of Boy !
Review: We think that the book is kind of funny sometimes. We liked the story about the mouse and the gobstoppers. When Roald put the mouse into the jar of gobstoppers, and Mrs Pratchett gets a heart attack or something. It was fun to read about his trips to Norway since we are from Norway.

We didn't like the parts about the cane. It must have been horrible to be punished this way. It's interesting to read about all the odd things that happened to him. This is roughly what the book is about. We strongly recomend this book. It interesting, funny and sometimes shocking.

Hilde, Hans Kristian and Jon Einar

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A good book!
Review: We think that this book decerves a four star , because it's a funny book , but it dosn't reach the highest mark because of some things that are missing , such as: the describing of the norwegian. As an norwegian I felt opposed by the way we are described. He makes us feel like complete fowl , eating fish at every dinner and goatcheese. But it was also a little funny to get described like that...maybe that is how foreigners perceves us? The book has a lot of funny incedens , such as "the toilet warmer episode". We also found the goats tobacco incedes amousing!

That is all we want to say about this book...go Roald Dahl! =)

Love from Bente and Anette (norwegians)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Boy, this was good!
Review: We absolutely adored the book because of all the extremely funny stories and the wonderful way Mr Dahl wrote about them. He must have had excellent memory. But the thing we enjoyed the most was the fact that he wrote about his childhood in a way that was amusing not only for him, but also for us who have not experienced those kinds of things. We really felt like we were a part of the story.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: I guess it was an okay book
Review: This book was okay, i am in the 8th grade, and my class just finished reading it. It wasn't boring but it wasn't the best book i have ever read. All of Roald Dahl's books are okay some are very good, but this one wasn't what i expected it would be.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Wonderful book!
Review: This is a great book. The words that Roald Dahl wrote made such a lasting impression that I can't even use MY words to describe it. I got it at a yardsale for free...it was in the quarter box, but the man selling everything let me have it for free....I've read it over and over again and it never gets old. It's so wonderful that I'd recommend it to a 9 year old because of all of the adventures Dahl describes from when he was a child and I'd recommend it to a 99 year old because of the memories he dwells on from the early 1900s. It's one of the best books I've read, I just wish it wasn't so short. Please read it!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Boy
Review: I liked this book because I think he had a lot of adventures going to boarding school. My favorite part is when Roald Dahl put a dead rat in a candy jar at the candy store. His favorite candies were licorice bootlaces and gobstoppers.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It's about Roald Dahl's life when he was a boy.
Review: It was a marvellous book.If you love Roald Dahl's books you can't miss this one!I found it very interesting.It's very funny andyou will want to readit again and again.


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