Roald Dahl Boy Tales Of Childhood"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 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.