This is the second of the 10 bestselling children's books of 1991. It features little Billy who lives with his mother in a small cottage. She warns him never to go into the Forest of Sin, but one day Billy secretly slips out. The author also wrote Dirty Beasts and Witches.

 

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 1991 by Random House Children's Publishers UK .

Roald Dahl was born in Wales of Norwegian parents the child of a second marriage. His father and elder sister died when Roald was just three. His mother was left to raise two stepchildren and her own four children. Roald was her only son. He had an unhappy time at school and this influenced his writing greatly. He once said that what distinguished him from most other childrens writers was this business of remembering what it was like to be young. Many of his books have been turned into films - Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG, The Witches, James and The Giant Peach, Esia Trot, Fantastic Mr Fox. Roalds childhood and schooldays are the subject of his autobiography Boy. https://www. roalddahl. com/