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Title: James and the Giant Peach

Author: Roald Dahl
Illustrator: Quentin Blake
Published date: First published in

1961, book at hand- 2016

Introduction: There is a book called

James and the Giant Peach, by
Roald Dahl and illustrated by

Quentin Blake that we read in Term
2. The edition I have was published

in 2016 by Puffin Books, a part of
Penguin Random House UK (In the

UK, of course), while the first edition
was published in 1961 by Alfred A.

Knopf Inc. in the US. The main idea

of the book is that, even if you’ve
been through a lot, even if it’s been a long time, you can still make friends. Roald
Dahl wrote it as his first official attempt to write for children. This critical

appreciation will, well, critically appreciate this book.

Summary:James was a young boy with great parents. He was having a
wonderful life until, one day, his parents were eaten up by a rhinoceros that had

escaped from the zoo. He was four years old, and was sent to his aunts’ home.
They were mean people. One day, he went and met a man with magic crystals.

He told him to put some of his hair, the crystals and water in a jug and drink the

concoction. James went towards the house, but slipped and the crystals in the
ground sunk into the soil. The next day, a peach grew on the ancient peach tree

nearby. The peach grew as big as the house. His aunts decided to sell tickets for
people to see the peach. That night, James was sent out. He saw a tunnel in the

peach and went through it. Inside, in the core, were insects that were giant as
could talk. He became friends with them. One of them cut the stem of the peach

and they rolled off the hill, out of the town and into the ocean. Then sharks came
and tried to eat them. They got help from the seagulls and lifted up into the sky.

After cloud-men pelting things at them, they fall onto the empire state building
and have a good life again.