num_pages: 221
description: "Well, first of all, " said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist."Sophie discovers that giants not only exist, but that there are a great many of them who like to guzzle and swallomp nice little chiddlers. But not the Big Friendly Giant. He and Sophie cook up an ingenious plot to free the world of troggle-humping -- forever.
language: English
title: The BFG
titlecomplete: The BFG
characters: Sophie (the BFG), The Bonecruncher, The Childchewer, The Fleshlumpeater, The Gizzardgulper, The Maidmasher, Queen Elizabeth II, the Big Friendly Giant, The Bloodbottler, Mary (the BFG), The Butcher Boy, Mr. Tibbs (the BFG), The Meatdripper, The Manhugger
genres: Juvenile, Fiction, Humor, Classics, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure, Fantasy, Middle Grade, Audiobook
ratings_count: 466290
places: United Kingdom, England, London, England
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: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)