James and the giant peach /
by Dahl, Roald; Dahl, Roald [author.]; Blake, Quentin [illustrator.].
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BookLondon : Puffin, 2022Edition: New.Description: 272 p. : Some B & W illus ; 198 x 129 mm. 230 gm.ISBN: 9780241558331.Subject(s): Fantasy fiction | Insects-Fiction | Children's / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction | Children's / Teenage fiction: Fantasy | Children's / Teenage fiction: Nature & animal stories | Interest age: from c 7 years | Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) | Fiction 7+ | Fantasy and MagicSummary: James meets all sorts of strange new friends when the giant peach appears in his back garden. 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...
Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World's Number One Storyteller!
NOTE: This edition has a new interior design and cover. The text in this edition of James and the Giant Peach was updated in 2022 for young independent readers.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| Book - Childrens Paperback | Bootle Library | Childrens Fiction | Checked out | 29/10/2024 | 003028065X | |||
| Book - Childrens Paperback | Formby Library | Childrens Fiction | Checked out | 12/09/2023 | 003022881X | |||
| Book - Childrens Paperback | Netherton Library | Childrens Fiction | Checked out | 18/10/2024 | 003028067X | |||
| Book - Childrens Paperback | Southport Library | Childrens Fiction | Available | 003028066X |
Orig pub in 1961.
James meets all sorts of strange new friends when the giant peach appears in his back garden. 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...
Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World's Number One Storyteller!
NOTE: This edition has a new interior design and cover. The text in this edition of James and the Giant Peach was updated in 2022 for young independent readers.
Young People.
8-10.
7-12.
KS2 KS3.
Accelerated Reader MY 4.8 4.0 Quiz number: 200047.
Book band Grey (Year 4).
Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. He was also the author of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG and many more brilliant stories.
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