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- Who should read James and the Giant Peach? Any age, children and adults alike, who enjoy imaginative and whimsical stories Readers who appreciate Roald Dahl's unique storytelling style and witty writing Individuals looking for an escape from reality into a world filled with adventure and magic
James and the Giant Peach is a children's novel written in 1961 by British author Roald Dahl. The first edition, published by Alfred Knopf, featured illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert.
- Roald Dahl, Nancy Ekholm Burkert
- 1961
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James and the Giant Peach is a popular children's novel written in 1961 by British author Roald Dahl. The plot centers on a young English orphan boy who enters a gigantic, magical peach, and has a wild and surreal cross-world adventure with seven magically-altered garden bugs he meets.
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- Hardcover
Apr 26, 2000 · When James accidentally spills the crystals on his aunts' withered peach tree, he sets the adventure in motion. From the old tree a single peach grows, and grows, and grows some more, until finally James climbs inside the giant fruit and rolls away from his despicable aunts to a whole new life.
- Roald Dahl, Nancy Ekholm Burkert
- $7.99
- Puffin Books
About James and the Giant Peach. From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, this special edition of Roald Dahl’s beloved story has a beautiful full color interior and large trim to feature Quentin Blake’s iconic art.
- Paperback
Parents need to know that James and the Giant Peach creates a marvelous, fantastical world for young independent readers. Dahl's original cast of characters, magical and suspenseful situations, and his liberal addition of comic poetry also make this a terrific read-aloud book.
James meets the similarly miraculous creatures who inhabit the peach – the Earthworm and the Centipede, Miss Spider and the Ladybug, both a Silkworm and a Glow-Worm, and the grandfatherly Old-Green-Grasshopper.
James and the Giant Peach. After his dear parents are eaten by an enormous and angry rhinoceros, escaped from the London Zoo, James Henry Trotter spends his next four years doing the bidding of the most odious and awful of relatives, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker.
