Boy : tales of childhood

Find out where the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG got all his wonderful story ideas in this autobiographical account of his childhood! From his own life, of course! As full of excitement and the unexpected as his world-famous, best-selling books, Roald Dahl's tales of his own childhood are completely fascinating and fiendishly funny. Did you know that Ro…

Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs : lost in the tunnel of time

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0439574641

Collation

81 pages : illustration ; 19 cm

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