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


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LymburnFIC DAHBook30269000035134Fiction