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James and the Giant Peach

James and the Giant Peach

Smith, Lane
Dahl, Roald

Paperback

General Juvenile Fiction

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ISBN10: 0140374248
ISBN13: 9780140374247
Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
Published: Apr 1 1996
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG!

Roald Dahl was a champion of the underdog and all things little--in this case, an orphaned boy oppressed by two nasty, self-centered aunts. How James escapes his miserable life with the horrible aunts and becomes a hero is a Dahlicious fantasy of the highest order. You will never forget resourceful little James and his new family of magically overgrown insects--a ladybug, a spider, a grasshopper, a glowworm, a silkworm, and the chronic complainer, a centipede with a hundred gorgeous shoes. Their adventures aboard a luscious peach as large as a house take them across the Atlantic Ocean, through waters infested with peach-eating sharks and skies inhabited by malevolent Cloudmen, to a ticker-tape parade in New York City.

This happily ever after contemporary fairy tale is a twentieth-century classic that every child deserves to know. And Lane Smith's endearingly funny illustrations are a perfect match for the text.

All the gruesome imagery of old-fashioned fairy tales and a good measure of their breathtaking delight. --Kirkus Reviews

A stunning book, to be cherished for its story, a superb fantasy. --The Chicago Tribune

The most original fantasy that has been published in a long time...[it] may well become a classic. --San Francisco Chronicle

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