James and the Giant Peach
By Roald Dahl
Categories: Children's Books
James and the Giant Peach (1961) is Roald Dahl's children's novel, illustrated in this edition by Quentin Blake. Orphaned James Henry Trotter lives miserably with his cruel aunts Sponge and Spiker until a magic potion grows an enormous peach in their garden. James crawls inside, befriends a group of giant insects, and the peach rolls off on a fantastic journey across the ocean.
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- Steven Spielberg: “I've read a lot of Dahl's work. I've read the standards to my kids: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach.”