James And the Giant Peach - Softcover

Roald Dahl; Nancy Ekholm Burkert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140328718 ISBN 13: 9780140328714

Publisher: Puffin, 1988

Synopsis

When James stumbles and drops the bag containing "tiny magical green things", he watches helplessly as all his lovely magic wriggles away into the earth underneath an old peach tree. Sadly he resigns himself to continued misery with his two wicked aunts . . . but then amazing things begin to happen.

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Product Description:

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Review:

When poor James Henry Trotter loses his parents in a horrible rhinoceros accident, he is forced to live with his two wicked aunts, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. After three years he becomes "the saddest and loneliest boy you could find". Then one day, a wizened old man in a dark-green suit gives James a bag of magic crystals that promise to reverse his misery forever. 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. James befriends an assortment of hilarious characters, including Grasshopper, Earthworm, Miss Spider and Centipede--each with his or her own song to sing. Roald Dahl's rich imagery and amusing characters ensure that parents will not tire of reading this classic aloud, which they will no doubt be called to do over and over again! We'll just come right out and say it ... James and the Giant Peach is one of the finest children's books ever written.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0140328718
• ISBN 13: 9780140328714
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112