ISBN: 9780141346311    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Year of publishing: 2013     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 160        Language: English

The book James and The Giant Peach is an old English children's classic fiction written in 1961. It has been re-published over the years with new illustrations. The story is about a little boy in a surreal world looking for friends. Beautifully created characters and interesting and thrilling events make this adventure story a favorite of all times. The boy named James Henry Trotter is the protagonist of the story. He loses his parents at the age of four when a rhinoceros eats them. He lives with his aunts, Spiker and Sponge, who ill treat him all the time, give him very little to eat and makes him sleep on the attic floor. One day he meets a strange man who gives him green crocodile tongues and asks him to make a portion with them adding ten hair from his head. On the way back home, he stumbles and the crocodile tongues fall onto a peach tree. The tree starts giving peach fruits which it had never done before. The wicked aunts start making money on them. One peach grows enormously big, almost the size of the house. James ventures into it and gets into the peach stone where he finds talking arthropods and an earthworm. The giant peach rolls off the mountain and thus starts their adventure journey till they reach New York City. The re-issue edition of the book James and The Giant Peach was published by Penguin UK in 2013. It is available in paperback. Key Features: The book was adapted into an animated film in 1996 by Disney. The animated film was nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Music.
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The author of the book is Roald Dahl, well known for his books written for children. He is a British novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, poet and fighter pilot. He worked for the Royal Air Force during World War II and was an ace pilot. He wrote numerous stories for children and soon his books became best sellers. Some of his books are Charlie and his Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The Witches, Fantastic Mr. fox, The Twists, George's Marvelous Medicine, The BGF, My Uncle Oswald and Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying.
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