About this title: After being orphaned at the age of 4, James Henry Trotter goes to live with his only other relatives, the horrific Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge. The aunts force James to do all the work around the house, never give him treats, and refuse to let him play with other children. One day a mysterious stranger gives James some magical crystals, which James accidentally drops underneath a dormant peach tree. By the next morning, the tree has sprouted a peach as big as a house. When James investigates, he finds the giant peach inhabited by friendly talking insects, who help James leave behind his ...
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Description: Good. 0140328718 Good condition Soft cover book, some edge/corner rubs, may have small edge tear or spine slant, some creasing to spine, a good book! Shop & Save With US. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Puffin Books
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780140328714ISBN:0140328718
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Slight cover wear with crease and very small tear on corner near spine; pages appear unmarked, lightly tanned. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Puffin Books
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780140374247ISBN:0140374248
Description: Smith, Lane. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Minor corner curling. Minor creasing at two corners. Spine is free of creasing. Text is clean and bright. Binding is tight. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 126 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Puffin Books
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780140328714ISBN:0140328718
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Clean and tight soft cover, some wear on edges of cover. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 128 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. Clean and tight soft cover, some wear on edges of cover. paperback-Dahl, Roald, 1988, Puffin Books. Aunts; Children's stories, English; Classroom Adoption; Fairy tales; Fiction; General; Insects; Juvenile Fiction; Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magic read more
Description: Good in Unknown jacket. 0140328718 100% guaranteed. Typical wear for a good used book: tanning pages, creased cover and spine, bent corners and shelf wear. Some water staining. We work hard to make you happy. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Puffin
Date Published: 1988-10-01
ISBN-13:9780140328714ISBN:0140328718
Description: Very Good. Very light wear on cover. Pages very clean, binding very tight. Handwritten gift inscription inside front cover. (tpb, yad-D) read more
Description: Good. No DJ Issued. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Pages yellowed; one corner of cover creased. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 126 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Puffin Books
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780140328714ISBN:0140328718
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-library. Ex-school library, cover is taped, usual library markings and attachments. Still a very readable copy, with wonderful illustrations. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 128 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Puffin
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780140374247ISBN:0140374248
Description: Very Good. Slight cover wear with minor scuffing to edges. GoodwillnyBooks is committed to providing each customer with the highest standard of customer service. You may return new items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. read more
"Mr.Dahl strikes again. 'James and The Giant Peach' begs to be read aloud...aloud to an open-mouthed, hanging-on-to-your-every-word, filled-with-awe pre-teen audience.
There's an ill-treated orphan called James Henry Trotter who's blighted by a pair of wicked aunts: Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge. There's a musically-inclined grasshopper, an over-assertive centipede, a gloomy earthworm, a pro-active spider, a genteel ladybird, a timid glowworm and a silkworm who...well...sleeps. (Please excuse the over-use of adjectives. Dahl's writing does that to you!) And then, there's a giant peach.
Add to that Roald Dahl's imagery, satire and nonsensical poems. What you have is a child's Happy Place. Dahl had written this book when his baby son Theo had a terrible accident. Escaping into a fantasy-land for a few hours each day helped him through the crisis. And the grand storyteller does the same for all of us. The world he creates is fantastical and improbable. And in it's improbability, you find a much-needed escape from the daily woes."
"It was a really exciting and suspenseful book.My favorite part about it was when James and all of the bugs were in the peach and the birds were carrying the peach over the ocean."
"James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl Rating: 7/10. Amusing, but not the best Dahl has to offer. Plot: When James' parents die, he goes to live with his cruel aunts, Spiker and Sponge. He suffers through this obediently for several years, and then a most peculiar thing happens- a strange man gives him some magic tongues. But before James can brew them into tea, he spills them on the ground near a peach tree. The next day, an enormous peach grows on the tree, and James finds a secret hideout in the pit, along with human sized insect-- a grasshopper, ladybug, earthworm, silkworm, centipede, and spider. The peach then rolls over the evil aunts, and they embark on an adventure.
Why challenged? My guess? Violence, language (the word "ass" is used once as an insult). Research Says: Challenged at the Deep Creek Elementary School in Charlotte Harbor, Fla. (1991) because it is "not appropriate reading material for young children." Challenged at the Pederson Elementary School in Altoona, Wis. (1991) and at the Morton Elementary School library in Brooksville, Fla. (1992) because the book contains the word "ass" and "promotes" the use of drugs (tobacco, snuff) and whiskey. Removed from classrooms in Stafford County, Va. Schools (1995) and placed in restricted access in the library because the story contains crude language and encourages children to disobey their parents and other adults."
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