Throughout his young days at school and just afterwards, a number of things happened to Roald Dahl, that made such a tremendous impression he never forgot them. Boy is the story of Roald Dahl's childhood; tales of exciting and strange things - some funny, some frightening, all true. 'An 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.' Roald Dahl