James and the Giant Peach

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A fine first edition, first state ("Woolf" on colophon page) in a fine dust jacket with a tiny (1/4 inch deep) chip at the top of the spine. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives.

Up and up the Giant Peach flies allowing James to have a host of magical adventures including an encounter with the deadly Cloud Men before the final touch down. Read more about the seller notes “UNPOSTED / UNUSED POSTCARD - check picture(s) carefully for any marks / writing / corner wear. Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. You've probably read all these books several times already, but you can never get tired of these individual pieces of magic. When poor James Henry Trotter loses his parents in a horrible rhinoceros accident, he is forced to live with his two wicked aunts, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker.In 1953 Dahl married the actress Patricia Neal; they had three children, to whom he began to tell bedtime stories. He proceeds to embark on a wild adventure with his insect friends, getting into trouble and saving them from sticky situations. Best-selling Roald Dahl has delighted children for half a century and this 50th anniversary edition celebrates that amazing feat. If you’d like to file an allegation of infringement, you’ll need to follow the process described in our Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy.

As a result, your viewing experience will be diminished, and you have been placed in read-only mode. A nearby barren peach tree, in turn, produces a single peach which soon grows to the size of a house. They always ask me to keep reading at the end of a chapter, always eager to find out what happens next. This year's celebrations focus lots of attention on the 50th anniversary of James and the Giant Peach but that's not everything. From the old tree a single peach grows, and grows, and grows some more, until finally James climbs inside the giant fruit and rolls away from his despicable aunts to a whole new life.First American edition (not stated), which precedes the British edition by six years, first issue (five line colophon, bound by H. This is one of my favourite projects because I got the chance to work on and be inspired by one of my favourite stories growing up. The second image is, in my opinion, too serious, I don't think it has a childlike feel to it at all. As you know, I plan to do the popsugar reading challenge, so James and the Giant Peach fits into the prompt that says ‘read a book with a food item in the title’. The cast included Simon Bell playing James, Bernard Cribbins playing Centipede, and Anna Quayle playing Aunt Spiker.

A splendiferous new hardback of James and the Giant Peach, part of a collection of truly delumptious classic Roald Dahl titles with stylish jackets over surprise printed colour cases, and exquisite endpaper designs. The contents are bright and generally clean with illustrations, including some in color but also with a bit of light scattered foxing to a few pages. At one point, Miss Spider tells James about her father’s death at the hand of Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spike.

I really like your second one of James climbing into the peach, really nice composition i'd make the house in the background slightly smaller so that it fits in the nice space you've created with the tree branch! The book has crisp, vibrant red cloth boards with an embossed image of a wreath and the head of a child to front. Basis for the 1976 BBC TV film starring Simon Bell, Anna Quayle, and Ann Beach, and the 1996 animated film starring Paul Terry, Richard Dreyfuss, Peter Postlethwaite, and Susan Sarandon.

I can imagine Aunt Sponge’s appearance – a stout character who always looks angry, had a whiny voice and sweats – a lot. We wanted to celebrate the Roald Dahl centenary by putting a selection of 'wondercrump' books Roald Dahl has written into one perfect list. A lovely copy, warmly inscribed by the author to the then six year old daughter of Arthur Ibbetson BSC, the cinematographer of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The difference is that James is all boy and what transpires in the story is anything but Victorian". When his parents are unceremoniously eaten by a rhinoceros that escapes from London Zoo, James is forced to go and live with his unpleasant aunts.I was going to review The Book Thief this week and it’s still on my list but reading is slow at the moment. The dust jacket has significant chipping and a few tears, but is a true first jacket, slightly longer (fold-to-fold) than subsequent printings; beware of switched jackets. I downloaded this book as I read his paper copy to my grandson over Christmas which we both enjoyed. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.