num_pages: 126
description: A little magic can take you a long way...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.This happily ever after contemporary fairy tale is a twentieth-century classic that every child deserves to know. And Lane Smith's endearingly funny illustrations are a perfect match for the text.
language: English
title: James and the Giant Peach
titlecomplete: James and the Giant Peach
characters: James Henry Trotter
genres: Classics, Adventure, Fantasy, Chapter Books, Childrens, Juvenile, Humor, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Fiction
ratings_count: 458567
publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers