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Title: James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl, Lane Smith ISBN: 0-14-037424-8 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 26 April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (122 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: My favorite book from childhood.
Comment: I first read "James and the Giant Peach" when I was 9 years old (I am 14 now), and reread it so many times that I actually know the story by heart! This book is funny, exciting and makes me use my imagination.
The story: After his parents are eaten by a rhinoceros (I would've made a tiger eat them instead, since in real life rhinos don't eat meat!), young James Henry Trotter has to go live with his two mean aunts named Sponge and Spiker, who treat him very very badly. Poor James has to live with his aunts for three whole years until one day a mysterious man gives him a bag of magic things. (He tells him they are crocodile tongues.) James is so excited that he starts running back to the house, but when he is underneath an old peach tree in the garden he accidentally slips and spills all the tiny little things and they dig themselves into the roots of the tree.
Suddenly a peach appears on the very tip of the tree and then starts to grow and grow and doesn't stop until it is as big as a house! The aunts are so excited about this that instead of immediately eating pieces off the peach they start charging people to see the peach. After everyone has left they force James to pick up all the litter that the people left behind. Poor James is left all alone in the dark! For no particular reason, James walks up to the peach and starts touching it. He notices that there is a rather large hole in the peach. He crawls in, and he keeps on crawling until he reaches the center of the peach. He meets seven oversized insects who turn out to have swallowed some of the tiny little things that James had spilled. When the stem snips off (with some help, of course), the peach rolls off and the eight travellers embark on the adventure of a lifetime!
Roald Dahl was my favorite childhood author; I have read most of his children's books, and this is my personal favorite.
I recommend this book to anyone between the ages of 8 and 14.
Rating: 5
Summary: James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Comment: This book is outstanding, adventurous, and you never know what is going to happen next!
The story is about a boy, named James, who wants to be free from his awful aunts. James accidently drops the magic crystals he's been given and they sink into the soil. Amazing things begin to happen to an old peach tree as well as to creatures who turn gigantic. James and the oversized creatures ride the giant peach into many adventures. They meet sharks, seagulls and cloud men along their journey.
James and his friends want to reach a safe and beautiful place to live. Will their dreams come true?
We loved this book because it was funny with lots of action and adventure. We would love to read a new book, James and the Giant Peach, Part II !
Rating: 5
Summary: James and the Giant Peach
Comment: When I read James and the Giant peach for the first time I loved it! it was adventurous and exciting! I loved how the writer made the creatures so interesting. Also she made the aunts look evil as was explainedin the book. I just wanted to reach in the book and yell at them! The book was kind-off mythical when james got to the cloud men. I could read that book over and over again and I would never get bored!
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Title: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Puffin Novels) by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake ISBN: 0141301155 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Matilda by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake ISBN: 0141301066 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The BFG by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake ISBN: 0141301058 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Charlotte's Web by E. B. White, Garth Williams ISBN: 0064400557 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 15 May, 1974 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Puffin Novels) by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake ISBN: 0141301120 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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