James and the Giant Peach: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)

Roald Dahl's perennial bestseller about a boy's magical journey across the sea, James and the Giant Peach, celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in 2011. When James, a boy stuck living with his cantankerous aunts, is given magic crystals by a sympathetic wizard, he accidentally drops them at the foot of the peach tree outside his house, causing one of the fruits to grow the size of a house. Inside he finds oversized insects who promise him deliverance from his aunts, and soon the giant peach is rolling downhill, bound for the Atlantic Ocean and beyond on a magnificent adventure that will take James and his new friends far indeed.

Aimee Bender is the bestselling author of the novels The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake and An Invisible Sign of My Own and the story collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and Willful Creatures. She lives in Los Angeles.

Jordan Crane is an illustrator, author, and cartoonist who collaborated with McSweeney's on a collection of essays by novelist Michael Chabon in 2008. He lives in Los Angeles.