James and the Giant Peach
by Roald Dahl
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Author: Roald DahlEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Published: 1988
ISBN: 0590505904
Number of pages: 120
Publisher: Puffin / Scholastic
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Book Review: A magical journey awaits
Summary: 5 Stars
When James' parents die, he goes to live with Aunts Spiker and Aunt Sponge, who are just terrible. They are selfish and lazy and cruel to James. One one such occasion where they were being especially mean, James runs off from the garden and runs into a small man. This man has the offer of magic in a bag and gives James explicit instructions as to what to do to make sure the magic is his.
What follows from the start of this adventure is nothing short of extraordinary. James and the aunts witness a peach growing right before their very eyes. It gets so big it's like a small house, and the aunts want to make money off of this, using it like a fair attraction.
It's when they send James out to clean up after the crowds that he notices a hole in the peach. A small hole, but big enough for a fox so he kneels in front and sticks his head and shoulders in and then crawls right inside. (The description of the interior of the peach was my favorite, as it sounds lush and majestic. I love when James even stops to take a bit out of the wall of the peach.)
He meets a motley crew of insects who are human-sized within the peach and each tells his/her story of how they came to live in the peach. After a night of sleeping in the peach, and just as the evil aunts are about to start Day 2 of the Giant Peach Attraction, the peach itself breaks from the branch, tumbles down the hill, gathers speed, hurls across twenty field and eventually over the white cliffs and into the ocean...where it floats to a new land.
All along the way of this adventure, there is great peril and danger, but together the "peach-mates" make it though. They stick together, live on in the peach, and when they arrive in the new land, they are welcomed like heroes. After all this fanfare, they also go on to live extraordinary lives.
What happens to the peach, you ask? Read the book to find out, as the final destination is sweet and endearing, especially for our main character James.
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