James and the giant peach
Title
:
James and the giant peach
Personal Author EPSB
:
Roald, Dahl
Summary
:
ames Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that looks boiled and Aunt Spiker is bony and screeching. He's very lonely until one day something peculiar happens. At the end of the garden a peach starts to grow and GROW AND GROW. Inside that peach are seven very unusual insects - all waiting to take James on a magical adventure. But where will they go in their GIANT PEACH and what will happen to the horrible aunts if they stand in their way? There's only one way to find out . . Ages 9+
Year Published
:
2016,
1961
Physical Description
:
148 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Note
:
This edition originally published: 1995.
Subject
:
Aunts -- Fiction.
Imagination -- Fiction.
Peach -- Fiction.
Boys -- Fiction.
Fairy tales.
Adventure and adventurers.
Animals -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Fantasy fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Added Author
:
Blake, Quentin,
Summary
:
ames Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that looks boiled and Aunt Spiker is bony and screeching. He's very lonely until one day something peculiar happens. At the end of the garden a peach starts to grow and GROW AND GROW. Inside that peach are seven very unusual insects - all waiting to take James on a magical adventure. But where will they go in their GIANT PEACH and what will happen to the horrible aunts if they stand in their way? There's only one way to find out . . Ages 9+
ISBN
:
9780141361598
9780425287651
9780141371429
9780141349893
9780140374247
Publisher
:
London : Puffin, 2016.
©1961
Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
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Lymburn | FIC DAH | Book | 30269000035134 | Fiction |