More about boy: Roald Dahl's tales from childhood

Starting-point: Papa and Mama

More about Mama

Kindergarten, 1922-3

A grand time

Llandaff Cathedral School, 1923-5 (age 7-9): The bicycle and the sweet-shop

The great mouse plot

A life without sweets

Going to Norway

The magic Island

A visit to the doctor

The last lap

St. Peter's, 1925-9 (age 9-13): First day

Writing home

The matron

Homesickness

A drive in the motor-car

The Meccano chariot

Captain Hardcastle

How I became a writer

Little Ellis and the boil

Goat's tobacco

Repton and Shell, 1929-36 (age 13-20): Getting dressed for the big school

Boazers

Painful punishments

The headmaster

Chocolates

Ten horrid little boys and girls

Corkers

Fagging

That awful cold bath

Games and photography

Goodbye school

P.S.: The voyage out (excerpt from going solo)

A Dahl-tastic quiz.