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  • Published: 11 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141348971
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download

Boy

Tales of Childhood




A beautiful new jacket treatment, part of Penguin's reissue programme of Dahl's adult titles

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Boy by Roald Dahl, read by Dan Stevens.

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

  • Published: 11 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141348971
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download

About the authors

Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. He was also the author of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG and many more brilliant stories.

Quentin Blake

Quentin Blake has been drawing ever since he can remember. He taught illustration for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art, of which he is an honorary professor. He has won many prizes, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, the Eleanor Farjeon Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal, and in 1999 he was appointed the first Children’s Laureate. In the 2013 New Year’s Honours List he was knighted for services to illustration.

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