num_pages: 256
description: Roald Dahl's beloved novel hits the big screen in July 2016 in a major motion picture adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg from Amblin Entertainment and Walt Disney Pictures.When Sophie is snatched from her orphanage bed by the BFG (Big Friendly Giant), she fears she will be eaten. But instead the two join forces to vanquish the nine other far less gentle giants who threaten to consume earth’s children.
language: English
title: The BFG
titlecomplete: The BFG
characters: The Meatdripper, the Big Friendly Giant, Queen Elizabeth II, The Childchewer, Mr. Tibbs (the BFG), The Gizzardgulper, The Butcher Boy, The Manhugger, Sophie (the BFG), The Fleshlumpeater, The Bonecruncher, The Bloodbottler, Mary (the BFG), The Maidmasher
genres: Fiction, Adventure, Juvenile, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Humor, Classics, Childrens, Fantasy, Audiobook
ratings_count: 466440
places: England, London, England, United Kingdom
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Zilveren Griffel, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Books I Loved Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards
category: Read Aloud, Read Alone, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA)
category: Younger Readers, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Red House Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
category: Kinderbuch
publisher: Everyman's Library