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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 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

10 Oct 2025

It was interesting because it had ginormous bugs and I wanted to eat the peach which sounded sweet and nice tasty

02 Sep 2025

At first I was scared of the ugly ladies who don't really treat James well. But then when they roll down the hill and the car gets squashed, it made me laugh lots. I like the descriptions of all the insects that James travels with... Even the spider sounds cool. My mum puts on funny voices which makes it even better. We read this book so quickly, I was surprised with the ending. But in a good way.

30 Aug 2025

It was fiction and it was a good book. It’s not the best Road Dahl book I read but I liked it.

29 Aug 2025

This book is written by the same person who wrote Charlie and the chocolate factory. I love how James made all his dreams come true with the magic beans. His mum and dad went to heaven like my grandma went there too. I love how he got away from his horrible aunts.

29 Aug 2025

Enjoy

29 Aug 2025

This story is about a boy who had lost his parents and then went to an adventure with animals. The person I like The most was James, because he was very brave. I would recommend this book to someone else.

28 Aug 2025

it was amazing but the swearing did not come to my liking but still it was entertaining and happy in the end

23 Aug 2025

Because James became famous

22 Aug 2025

I would recommend this book but it’s not the best one by Roald Dahl. My favourite part of the story was the ending when I read what all their new jobs were. I also liked that James had a little hut inside the peach stone.

21 Aug 2025

I only watched the movie.

21 Aug 2025

I found it fun because James with friendships with beetles who lived inside the peach and when they were in there, the peach started rolling and they went rolling with it.

17 Aug 2025

I liked this book because it is really funny

16 Aug 2025

I love this book and like that they are usually singing often

10 Aug 2025

It was classic Ronald Dahl

06 Aug 2025

I like how they pull the peach out of water while sharks were surrounding it and how they used the sea gulls. Very instresting book

05 Aug 2025

6 stars :D

02 Aug 2025

My favourite part is when they were being attacked by the cloud men

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!

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