One of a series of classic literature titles for schools, this is Roald Dahl's account of his childhood. "I sat down in assembly one day and started to read this book to my two hundred and forty students, deciding that I would stop when restlessness became too obvious. I went on...and on... and on. In the end I had to stop before the school seized up, and still the children clamoured for more." Gerald Haigh, TES