James and the Giant Peach is a popular children’s novel written in 1961 by British author Roald Dahl. It is a children’s classic that has captured young reader’s imaginations for generations.
The plot centres on a young English orphan boy who enters a gigantic, magical peach, and has a wild and surreal cross-world adventure with seven magically altered garden bugs he meets. Dahl was originally going to write about a giant cherry, but changed it to James and the Giant Peach because a peach is “prettier, bigger and squishier than a cherry.” Because of the story’s occasional macabre and potentially frightening content, it has become a regular target of censors.
James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags.Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that looks boiled and Aunt Spiker is bony and screeching. He’s very lonely until one day something peculiar happens. . .
At the end of the garden a peach starts to grow and GROW AND GROW. Inside that peach are seven very unusual insects – all waiting to take James on a magical adventure. But where will they go in their GIANT PEACH, and what will happen to the horrible aunts if they stand in their way?
There’s only one way to find out . . .
