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James and the Giant Peach

by Roald Dahl

James and the Giant Peach Cover

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"Magic green pills spill, accidentally, onto the ground beneath a peach tree. A peach appears overnight, the only fruit the tree has ever produced; by morning, it's swollen to the size of a houseboat, and soon enough James Henry Trotter is climbing aboard for the ride of his life. If John Lennon had written a full-length children's story instead of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," this would be it. Even the ending is true: The English orphan boy finds happiness in a home near his magical friends in New York's Central Park. I love this book: the story, the drawings [by Lane Smith], the characters, and most of all the adventure."
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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Roald Dahl's children's classic will be rediscovered with wonder and delight in this handsome gift edition with all-new black-and-white illustrations by Caldecott Honor Book artist Lane Smith (who also designed the characters for the Disney animated film). How James escapes from his miserable life with two nasty aunts and becomes a hero to his new insect family, including Miss Spider, the Old-Green-Grasshopper, the Centipede (with his 21 pairs of gorgeous boots), is "Dahl-icious fantasy at its best.

Review:

"This newly-illustrated edition of an avowed children's favorite has all the makings of a classic match-up: Milne had Shepard, Carroll had Tenniel, and now Dahl has Smith...author and illustrator were made for each other, and it's of little consequence that it took almost 35 years for them to meet" --Kirkus.

From the Hardcover Library Binding edition.

Review:

"This newly-illustrated edition of an avowed children's favorite has all the makings of a classic match-up: Milne had Shepard, Carroll had Tenniel, and now Dahl has Smith...author and illustrator were made for each other, and it's of little consequence that it took almost 35 years for them to meet" --Kirkus.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780679880905
Author:
Smith, Lane
Author:
Smith, Lane
Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Location:
New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
Subject:
Children's fiction
Subject:
Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic
Subject:
Children's 9-12 - Fiction - General
Subject:
Fairy tales
Subject:
Fantasy & Magic
Subject:
Boys
Publication Date:
March 1996
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
144
Dimensions:
9.63x6.35x.68 in. .71 lbs.
Age Level:
06-12
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