James and the Giant Peach (Colour Edition)

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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.
James 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 . .
Listen to JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH and other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet, David Walliams and Steven Fry – plus there are added squelchy soundeffects from Pinewood Studios!
Look out for new Roald Dahl apps in the App store and Google Play- including the disgusting TWIT OR MISS! inspired by the revolting Twits.
""A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero"" David Walliams
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I love this book because Roald Dahl is my favourite author so I love all books by Roald Dahl.
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.
i like this book because Jameses parents got eaten by a hippopotamus
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I didn't like it
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!
This was a great adventure book to read and the seagull idea was fascinating.
loved reading the book
I loved when James met all the insects
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.
I really like Roald dahl and this is one of my favorite books he was written
I loved it
Roald Dahl is my favourite author so I really enjoyed this book. My favourite character was the centipede
I found the Centipede funny because he always had to put on 42 boots on and off again and again.
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.
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.
It was really cool when the peach was growing.
I would recommend this book to kids aged 6-7 years old.
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
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!
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.
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.
The book is amazing good every part of it is brilliant!
I didn’t like the thought of insects. But liked to learn some facts about them. But i still don’t like spiders.
I really enjoyed this book. I like the Roald Dahl characters and how he brings them to life in his great descriptions.
It was really interesting and I loved it but it was not very long but I still loved it and James was my favourite character.
I thought this book was exciting, intriguing and captivating. My favourite character in the story was James because he was kind, curious and intelligent. In this book, James was treated very badly by his aunts ( Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker). As James was working in the garden, a old man came up to him and gave him some magical small objects. Then James accidentally dropped them. After some time, a peach began growing on a old tree (not a single peach had grown on it for a very long time) and started growing and growing and growing, getting bigger and bigger and bigger and soon it was as big as a small house. When his aunts spotted the peach, they thought they would make a lot of money out of it as they were going to let people see it. Soon, they had loads of people crowding around the giant thing. One day, James was out in the garden clearing up rubbish from all the visitors until he spotted a small hole in the peach. After that, he went through a deep dark tunnel in the peach and soon was at the middle of the peach where the seed was. He pushed the seed and found a bundle of gigantic insects. He was frightened at first, but then he felt comfortable with these kind creatures. When it was the morning, they all set off on a dangerous journey and ended up in America on the Empire State building! Then, they all ended up being famous and popular. I would recommend this book because it is fun and interesting.
I enjoyed the book. I would recommend to a friend. I did an AR quiz on this book and got 10 out of 10!
I love all of the different little insects living in the peach.
I love all of the different little insects living in the peach.
I liked James the best out of them all.
I like the book a bit