James and the Giant Peach (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Synopsis
An enormous escaped rhinoceros from London Zoo has eaten James's parents. And it gets worse! James is packed off to live with his two really horrible aunts, Sponge and Spiker. Poor James is miserable, until something peculiar happens and James finds himself on the most wonderful and extraordinary journey he could ever imagine... A new and delectable Deluxe edition of this wonderful classic.
The Good Book Guide Review
Dahl's first book for children is in many ways his best. James escapes from his cruel aunts through a tunnel that leads to the centre of a huge peach - which rolls downhill and squashes them. His peach adventures, with enlarged insects, threatening sharks, co-operative seagulls, have the grace, humour and fantasy of a latter-day 'Alice'.
James and the Giant Peach (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Press Reviews
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.Book Information
| ISBN: | 9780143106340 |
| Publication date: | 29th September 2011 |
| Author: | Roald Dahl, Aimee Bender |
| Illustrator: | Jordan Crane |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback / softback |
| Pagination: | 160 pages |
About Roald Dahl, Aimee Bender
Roald Dahl's parents were Norwegian, but he was born in Llandaff, Glamorgan, in 1916 and educated at Repton School. On the outbreak of the Second World War, he enlisted in the RAF at Nairobi. He was severely wounded after joining a fighter squadron in Libya, but later saw service as a fighter pilot in Greece and Syria. In 1942 he went to Washington as Assistant Air Attache, which was where he started to write, and was then transferred to Intelligence, ending the war as a wing commander. His first twelve stories, based on his wartime experiences, were originally published in leading American ...
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