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Roald Dahl

James and the Giant Peach Mass Market Paperback – January 1, 1995

by Roald Dahl (Author)

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00TRAX87Q
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Puffin (January 1, 1995)

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The son of Norwegian parents, Roald Dahl was born in Wales in 1916 and educated at Repton. He was a fighter pilot for the RAF during World War Two, and it was while writing about his experiences during this time that he started his career as an author.

His fabulously popular children's books are read by children all over the world. Some of his better-known works include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr Fox, Matilda, The Witches, and The BFG.

He died in November 1990.

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jay_the_nurse

Small font and peach colored ink made this wonderful story almost unreadable.

Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2017

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The story is a timeless classic and deserves to be. Every kid should have this book on their shelf. I'm taking three stars off for two things that are particular to this edition that make it a truly horrible rendition of this book. First, I ordered a hardcover edition of this book, and it is technically a hardcover. But it happens to be a hardcover the size of a typical paperback. Even worse someone thought it would be a great idea to print the text in peach colored ink, making reading it very difficult and without getting headaches. Total garbage.

66 people found this helpful

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A classic, but a little more racy than I remembered!

Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2019

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I have fond memories of reading this book as a child, and I wanted to share that with several of my nieces and nephews. The book arrived on time and the cover is lovely. I will mention though that the book does have some sort of harsh language in it; the two mean aunts call James some rude things, and there are three instances of the curse word a** being used. Given that it says right on the cover that this book is for ages 7+, I wasn't expecting that.

27 people found this helpful

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CAH

Printing error?!

Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2018

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This book was fine (I love the story and I was reading it to my daughter) until I got to page 26... where it skips to page 59. Somehow pages 27-58 are not included (anywhere else in the book). Of course I had this experience adter the “amazon return window closed” so I’m out of luck. I didn’t think to makes sure all the pages were included in a new book! Buyer beware!

37 people found this helpful

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A. S. Price

Great Read-a-Loud for my first grader

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2017

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Many of us are familiar with this story so I am going to comment on how I used it. My husband reads to our son at night. He has a short attention span but we want him to get longer books to build his comprehension. This book is great because it is engaging, but the short chapters make it easy to read only a small section each night. My son loves "peach book."

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JSander

How can this be possibly a kids’ read?!

Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2019

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Absolutely appalled by the story line: kids’ parents die, kid is abused and bullied by his aunts. How can this book be possibly recommended for children?! I read a few pages and had to put it away as I could no longer go on. It goes straight to trash tomorrow.

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J. D. Estrada

A fun little book that'll leave you feeling peachy

Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2019

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This is one of my favorite Roald Dahl stories. We often forget the source material when we see the movie, but that said, I think James and the Giant Peach is one of the most consistent adaptations from the Dahl catalogue. What you read in the book is of the closest I've seen on film.

Adaptations aside, this one gets top marks for being fun, quirky, creative, smile inducing, sweet, and enjoyable. All the characters are fun and interesting, from the mean aunts to the insect menagerie of companions James has by a fortuitous accident. This is not a book that will ever stress you out and quite often makes you chuckle at the sweet and silly things the insects say. It is also a redeeming journey for James, who had always been told he was worthless, in his journey to showing that he is truly a hero. It's a subtle message but an important one for people of all ages, and for me on a personal note: at times you are a hero or worthless depending on the context and the people who are around you. I think that's an extremely valuable life lesson and something anyone can appreciate.

Pacing is fun, writing is very Dahl-ish and it's a book I'd happily re-read for myself or read to a classroom given the opportunity.

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Muhammad Imad Qureshi

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Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2021

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James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake is a great book if you want to be entertained, or are starting to read chapter books. This book, published in 1961, is one of the most famous books worldwide to this day. It is a fictional-fantasy story and has a child-friendly plot. I would say the book is good for anyone from 8 to 14 years old.

James and the Giant Peach is a very descriptive book and makes it easy to imagine the scenes. This story starts off in London, England, in the countryside in James’s aunt’s house. Later on, James meets bugs inside the peach. The peach then ends up in the Atlantic Ocean and arrives in America.

James is the protagonist. His friends are giant bugs named Old-Green-Grasshopper, Centipede, Earthworm, Spider, and Ladybug. Although these bugs can be impatient, they cooperate with James and are friendly to him.

James is a curious orphan who was trapped with his cruel aunts for many years. One day, his aunts went to their garden and found an enormous peach on one of the trees. The aunts locked him outside of the house for some time as punishment, and that's when he spotted the giant peach. He examined the peach and found a big hole. Big enough for James to fit in it. He stepped into the hole and found the seed of the peach. The seed of the peach opened. James went inside where he met his future friends. Unfortunately, not after long, the peach started rolling, and rolling, and rolling. And that’s how his adventure begins.

James and the Giant Peach is filled with descriptive scenes and vivid words like “hurtled” or “plunged” which makes the book fun to read. It is very easy to imagine and feels like you're in the story itself. This novel is similar to other Roald Dahl books such as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Both books are easy to picture and have fun words in them such as “scrumptious”, “delectable”, or “enraptured”. The common theme can be that karma comes around.

Even though James was treated poorly by his aunts, he doesn’t become bitter or mean spirited. He still helped out the bugs. This shows that you can help out people and make friends even when it seems like you can’t. The theme of James and the Giant Peach relates to my life when I switched schools in fifth grade. I thought I wouldn’t be able to make friends or have fun. Soon someone did end up making friends with me, and then I had hope about making more friends. In just a little bit of time, I was having a lot of fun during recess and had many friends.

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HOW ART DIRECTORS CAN DESTROY A TEXT

Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2019

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Open this edition and you will find the text is peach colored! That makes it hard to read not only for parens, but also for children who might want to read it too, or might be inspired to do so one day after hearing it read to them ... which, after all, is the point of the exercise. But why should this agitate me so? For two reasons. First, the primary and unbreakable rule of typography in book design is that it should be legible! We should never struggle to decode what is printed on the page. Here, the pale, peach-tinted ink -- set off against the off-white, cheaply pulped page -- fails the text miserably. Second, the magnificent illustrations of Sir Quentin Blake suffer too from the reduced gradations of tone that resent from the tinted inking. And, to add insult to injury, this edition is called "deluxe."

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Review written by my 10 year old.......

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 4, 2022

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James and the Giant Peach: Roald Dahl

James And The Giant Peach is one of my favourite books that have been made by Roald Dahl, just because of the way its been written. It's like you're actually there on the peach with them. Also, the characters actually have some detailed personalities between each of them. My favourite character is Centipede, he's honestly a really funny character and always makes me laugh.

The best part of the story was when they went through the clouds and saw the Cloud-Men. After they saw them, Centipede started insulting them, which was hilarious.

The plot of the story was amazing, and it actually made me feel like I was there in person. Also one of my other favourite parts was when he met the "creatures" that had eaten the green crystal-like orbs that dug into the ground.

Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker also are two very "interesting" characters, that both boss James around to do stuff that needs doing (that mind you, he doesn't want to do).

Overall very interesting story. Highly recommend for readers who like books that have a detailed storyline.

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There you go, my son enjoyed it and I hope you all enjoyed reading his review!

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Summer

Timeless classic, must read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 18, 2021

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I'd listened to Roald Dahl books as a child, my dad always read to me. Now I'm reading them to my kids and the stories are still gripping, funny and so descriptive. They always ask me to keep reading at the end of a chapter, always eager to find out what happens next. It's a lovely time to spend with them and stirring their imagination. If you have kids, Roald Dahl books should be top of the list

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Andrew

Entertaining from first to last page

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 29, 2020

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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. If you loved that one you'll like this too, and if you liked this one you'll love that one.

One of the advantages of having children is that you get to enjoy reading the children's classics again, and pick up the subtleties you missed the first time.

Read to your kids, it's good for them and for you, and I'm addressing you dad's out there!

MB:-1

Great Size

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 20, 2017

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This is a nice A4-ish size book, which i prefer to the smaller size paperbacks. The illustrations are fab as always as is the story, the bigger book just makes it easier for us all to get a good look at the pages at bed-time!

14 people found this helpful

Freya Rowland

Great Book for Kids

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 20, 2020

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Read this to my son when he was in hospital after he was first born.. made me very happy as we named him after this book.

4 people found this helpful

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