If you liked Jacqueline Wilson’s My Secret Diary
and are keen to revisit the early memories of other children’s authors, try these...
Roald Dahl: Boy
In Boy, Roald Dahl recounts his days as a child growing up in England – from boarding school to the enviable position of chocolate tester for Cadburys! Sadistic matrons and bullying masters are interspersed with fond memories of his most inventive pranks such as punishing the owner of the local sweet shop by infiltrating his gobstopper jar with a dead mouse. Surprisingly, he lived to tell the tale.
Judith Kerr: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit is the first in a trilogy of books in which Judith Kerr, creater of the beloved cat Mog, tells a fictionalised account of her own childhood and adolescence. As a young Jewish girl, forced to flee her home in Germany in 1933 to escape the Nazis, the Kerr family escaped through Switzerland, spent some time in Paris and then finally arrived in England in 1936.
