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James and the Giant Peach (Colour Edition)

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James and the Giant Peach (Colour Edition) by Roald Dahl, and Quentin Blake

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By Roald Dahl, and and, Quentin Blake

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James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl in magnificent full colour.

""Bigger and bigger grew the peach, bigger and bigger and BIGGER.""

James Henry Trotter is about to go on the adventure of a lifetime.

James lives his awful Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker, two of the meanest people you can imagine.

Life isn’t much fun at all, until something peculiar happens at the bottom of his garden . . .

A peach at the very top of a tree begins to grow . . . and grow . . . and GROW! Inside are seven very unusual insects – all waiting to take James on a magical journey.

Reviews

29 Jul 2025

It was fun, good, made me happy.

28 Jul 2025

I liked that there were 7 insects and I am 7 years old and I like the number 7. I think other people should read it

18 Jul 2025

This is a fiction book. My favourite character is Mrs Spider because she is very polite and she does things for others even if she doesn't want to.It is a bit factual and I learnt that you can tell a ladybird 's age by how many spots it has.I would recommend it to people from the age of 4 - 11 because it is very funny and every single word is chosen carefully to make the book perfect.

08 Jul 2025

My favourite character is centipede because he sang a song about his favourite foods. I really liked the book and I think other people would like it too.

07 Jul 2025

I like it when they land in New York. My favourite character was Mrs Spider. There house was the peach seed

05 Jul 2025

I love it

03 Jun 2025

Great book!

28 May 2025

It was very nice.

02 Feb 2025

I love this book because Roald Dahl is my favourite author so I love all books by Roald Dahl.

18 Jan 2025

It's a fiction book. It is about a boy called James. He lived with his 2 mean aunties. One was really skinny and one was fat. A peach grew on a tree and got bigger and bigger until it rolled down and squashed the aunties.

I would ask my friends to read it because the peach rolled over them and James made new friends like the grasshopper, earthworm, silkworm and a ladybird. Oh and a centerpede.

05 Jan 2025

i like this book because Jameses parents got eaten by a hippopotamus
at london

31 Dec 2024

I didn't like it

24 Sep 2024

Very interesting and adventurous. I enjoyed the mild humour in the book and I can't say my favourite part wasn't the bit where the aunts got flattened by the peach!

03 Sep 2024

This was a great adventure book to read and the seagull idea was fascinating.

02 Sep 2024

loved reading the book

31 Aug 2024

I loved when James met all the insects

29 Aug 2024

After loving other Roald Dahl books I was hoping to love this but I found it a little harder to read. There was less humour and less exciting vocabulary.
It is still a classic read and I would recommend to others and maybe I will try and read it again to see if I can enjoy it more.

25 Aug 2024

I really like Roald dahl and this is one of my favorite books he was written

23 Aug 2024

I loved it

22 Aug 2024

Roald Dahl is my favourite author so I really enjoyed this book. My favourite character was the centipede

19 Aug 2024

I found the Centipede funny because he always had to put on 42 boots on and off again and again.

14 Aug 2024

The book James and the giant peach is a fiction book and not a factual book. The book interests me because Roald Dahl is one of my favourite authors. I like all the characters the best. I would recommend this book to anyone that is ages 6 and upwards.

05 Aug 2024

I love this book! My favorite character is the blind earthworm because it's funny that he is always such a downer. Everyone who loves very extraordinary, funny fiction and fantasy should, in my opinion, read this book.

05 Aug 2024

It was really cool when the peach was growing.

I would recommend this book to kids aged 6-7 years old.

03 Aug 2024

I really love this book its really my favourite my favourite character is the bug with all the shoes he has to take on and off and that James escapes his horrible aunts

29 Jul 2024

I liked because it was funny and different to other books I’ve read. My favourite character was Ant Spiker who was a funny character!

25 Jul 2024

It was the best and really funny. It’s about a boy ;James.He ends up living on a peach in the middle of the ocean! It’s also a short book but still good with quite adventure.I’d certainly recommend reading this book to anyone who is interested in adventure/comedy books.Its also fiction.

23 Jul 2024

My favourite character was James because he had a hard life with his awful aunties sponge and spiker and then he had the best life in the world with his friends in the peach and he got famous and wrote the story. I would recommend it to anyone who likes adventure.

23 Jul 2024

The book is amazing good every part of it is brilliant!

22 Jul 2024

I didn’t like the thought of insects. But liked to learn some facts about them. But i still don’t like spiders.

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