
James and the Giant Peach |
Book Category:
Juvenile Fiction > Fantasy & Magic
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Author:
Dahl, Roald
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Illustrator::
Lane Smith
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ISBN 10:
0140374248
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ISBN 13:
9780140374247
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Price:
USD $7.99
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Publication Year:
1996
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Publisher Info
Penguin Random House. InquiryBook Description
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.