James and the Giant Peach

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When poor James Henry Trotter loses his parents in a horrible rhinoceros accident, he is forced to live with his two wicked aunts, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. Through a series of peculiar and magical happenings, James finds himself in a giant peach with a bunch of friendly giant insects for travelling companions. Up and up the Giant Peach flies allowing James to have a host of magical adventures including an encounter with the deadly Cloud Men before the final touch down. Essentially, James is in a nightmare scenario – at least he doesn’t fear the insects and an arachnid, but I know if I was in that situation, I’d want to get out the peach and away from the insects as quickly as possible. Then one day, a wizened old man in a dark-green suit gives James a bag of magic crystals that promise to reverse his misery forever.

Sales have grown particularly strongly in America where Dahl books are now achieving the bestselling status that curiously proved elusive during the author’s lifetime. A new edition of this hugely popular story of James and his journey to New York with the strangest group of insect friends. Described as "rude, naughty, anti-adult, creepy, and sometimes cruel" (ODNB), James and the Giant Peach was adapted into a film of the same name in 1996, which was nominated for the Academy Award for "Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score" the following year. The insects become James friends and so the children are more likely to love them than be horrified by them.The final style emphasizes my hand drawn line work, and dimension is added not by colour but through repeated textures and patterns. James and the Giant Peach, the first of these to reach print, is a comic fantasy about a small boy who travels the world inside a huge peach, in company with several giant insects. He had an unhappy time at school - at Llandaff Cathedral School, at St Peter’s prep school in Weston-super-Mare and then at Repton in Derbyshire. It looks like it's about to slide straight of the page and makes the peach look like its ready to roll right behind it. intact and no ISBN on the rear panel, with light edge wear, toning and foxing, small stain to spine, extending onto rear panel.

He proceeds to embark on a wild adventure with his insect friends, getting into trouble and saving them from sticky situations. He is also the winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration and in 1990 was voted 'The Illustrator's Illustrator' by Observer Magazine. In 12 Hours She Was Dead': Read Roald Dahl's Heartbreaking Letter to Anti-Vaxxers After His Daughter Died From Measles". Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. One day, after James has been living with his aunts for three years, he meets a mysterious man who gives him a bag of magical crystals, instructing James to use them in a potion that would change his life for the better.My aunt read it to me, my sisters and my three cousins in two sittings over vacation at a beach house when I was about six. Nearly two decades later, Dahl published JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH as his second children's book, finally moving into the field where his writing would develop into a powerful legacy. Dust jacket has loss to top left hand side of front panel, closed tear to bottom right corner of front panel, loss to tail of spine approx 18mm. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy. A lovely copy, warmly inscribed by the author to the then six year old daughter of Arthur Ibbetson BSC, the cinematographer of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Roald Dahl's style has you entering into the character's shoes and living out his experience like it's your own, especially in this book and his other classic, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The jacket has but trivial nicks to the outer edges, otherwise no edgewear, No stains, No rips, No chips, No rubbing, No fading and No foxing.

Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. After the tourists have gone, James is assigned to clean the rubbish around the peach and finds a hole inside it. Burton's answer clinched the deal: 'It's the only book that ever gave me any hope when I was a child" (D is for Dahl, 68). Dahl had signed for her a copy of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with lots and lots and lots of love, and as such the present book with more love.