Boy Tales of Childhood

Hi everybody!

Last week in our English lesson I represented a book, which I read. So today I will write about my book report.

The book which I read was Boy Tales of Childhood. It is written by Roald Dahl. Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter. He was born in Wales on the 13. September 1916. His short stories are known for their unexpected endings and his children's books for their unsentimental, often very dark humour. It is an Autobiography about Roald Dahl's life from birth until leaving school. He describes his funniest and exiting stories of his life and how his childhood experiences led him to a writing career. The book plays in the 20th century and most of the time in a little village called Llandaff in Norway.

I have summarized my two favourite stories of the book

The first story is the 'Great mouse plot of 1924'

From the age of seven, Roald attended Llandaff Cathedral School in Cardiff. And one day Roald and his friends found at the back of the classroom a little hole, so they decided that this hole would be their secret hiding place for sweets and other small treasures. Every afternoon, when the last lesson was over, the boys looked at the hole. One day when they watched the hole, like all other days, there was a dead mouse in it. So the boys predominated what they could do with the dead mouse. After few minutes the boys considered that they put the mouse in one of the buckets from the sweetshop, in which the old, terrible Mrs Pratchett works. At the way home from school Roald and his friends put the mouse in one of the buckets without seeing by someone. Then they run out of the sweetshop and had a lot of fun.

The second story is 'Mrs Pratchett’s revenge'

One day after the mouse plot, at school, their form master came into the classroom with a piece of paper in his hand. On this paper there were written the names of the boys including Roald and they had to go to the Headmaster’s room. So Roald and his friends stood up and left the room. At the Headmaster’s room there was waiting a terrible surprise for the boys. Mrs Pratchett was sitting next to the Headmaster. So Roald and his friends had to tell the whole story of the mouse plot. So as retribution they were hit with a cane on the lower legs.

Boy Tales of Childhood is a really funny and amusing book. It is also easy to read and I can recommend it immediately.

When you have also read the book, please give me a short comment how you like the book.

Hope you like my posting and enjoy your week.

Regards,

Jakob