James and the giant peach publication date

No catches, no fine print just unconditional book loving for your children with their favourites saved to their own digital bookshelf. Elizabeth Laird. Valentina Giannella. Written by Roald Dahl. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. Best-selling Roald Dahl has delighted children for half a century and this 50th anniversary edition celebrates that amazing feat.

When James, a boy stuck living with his cantankerous aunts, is given magic crystals by a sympathetic wizard, he accidentally drops them at the foot of the peach tree outside his house, causing one of the fruits to grow the size of a house. Inside he finds oversized insects who promise him deliverance from his aunts, and soon the giant peach is rolling downhill, bound for the Atlantic Ocean and beyond on a magnificent adventure that will take James and his new friends far indeed. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. His parents were Norwegian, so holidays were spent in Norway. Paperback —. Add to Cart.

This website uses cookies. You can find a list of the cookies we use and what we use them for here , where you will also find information about how to change your cookie settings at any time. Otherwise we'll assume you're OK to continue. James Henry Trotter lives with his two horrid aunts, Spiker and Sponge. He hasn't got a single friend in the whole wide world.

Because of the story's macabre and occasionally frightening content, it has become a regular target of the censors and is no. When James Henry Trotter was four years old, his parents were gobbled up by a rhinoceros not far from their seaside home, and he has since been forced to live with his horrid aunts, Spiker Trotter and Sponge Trotter , who treat him like a slave, keep him in the attic and only feed him fish heads. One afternoon when he is crying in the woods James stumbles across a friendly wizard, who mysteriously understands his plight and gives him some magic crystals that he promises will bring happiness.
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