Evidence that Roald Dahl’s childhood was ripe with material for his many books for young readers—books renowned for their edgy humor, monstrous adults, and intrepid children—can be found in this engaging autobiography. Dahl’s happy home life among his several siblings is sharply contrasted with his experiences at boarding school, beginning at age nine. Details of a world filled with detached and sometimes vindictive adults is brought to vivid life, both in the narrative and in excerpts from Dahl’s letters home. The letters exist because his mother saved every piece of written correspondence Dahl sent from childhood until her death. The final pages cover Dahl’s early job experiences after leaving school, working for Shell Oil Company in England and East Africa before joining the Royal Air Force at age 22, in 1939. This volume adds new material to Dahl’s autobiography Boy (U.S. edition: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1984). A generous number of photographs, reproductions of letters, notes, and postcards, illustrations, and sidebars create a scrapbook feel for an unforgettable memoir. (Ages 9–14)

Twenty-five years ago in Boy, the world's favorite storyteller recollected scenes from his youth—some funny, some frightening, all true. More About Boy is the expanded story of Roald Dahl's childhood, with his original text augmented by never-before-seen material from behind the scenes, and some of the secrets that were left out. Dahl's adventures and misadventures during his school years are crowded with people as strange and wonderful as any character he created and are as exciting and full of the unexpected as his celebrated fiction.

This special keepsake hardcover edition is filled with personal memorabilia such as family photos, letters, report cards, plus dozens of illustrations by Quentin Blake, as well as a quiz to test the knowledge of Dahl afficionados of all shapes and sizes.