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Title: James and the Giant Peach
Condition: New
Author: Roald Dahl
Illustrator: Lane Smith
Contributor: Lane Smith (Illustrated by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0140374248
EAN: 9780140374247
ISBN: 9780140374247
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Genre: Children's Books
Release Date: 01/04/1996
Description: From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG! 

Roald Dahl was a champion of the underdog and all things little—in this case, an orphaned boy oppressed by two nasty, self-centered aunts. How James escapes his miserable life with the horrible aunts and becomes a hero is a Dahlicious fantasy of the highest order. You will never forget resourceful little James and his new family of magically overgrown insects—a ladybug, a spider, a grasshopper, a glowworm, a silkworm, and the chronic complainer, a centipede with a hundred gorgeous shoes. Their adventures aboard a luscious peach as large as a house take them across the Atlantic Ocean, through waters infested with peach-eating sharks and skies inhabited by malevolent Cloudmen, to a ticker-tape parade in New York City.

This happily ever after contemporary fairy tale is a twentieth-century classic that every child deserves to know. And Lane Smith's endearingly funny illustrations are a perfect match for the text.

"All the gruesome imagery of old-fashioned fairy tales and a good measure of their breathtaking delight." —Kirkus Reviews

"A stunning book, to be cherished for its story, a superb fantasy." —The Chicago Tribune

"The most original fantasy that has been published in a long time...[it] may well become a classic." —San Francisco Chronicle
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 195mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 10mm
Item Weight: 113g
Release Year: 1996

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