BOOK CLUB: JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH BY ROALD DAHL.
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Book blog
day boo yah. As you should know Tuesdays is book blog day were we
talk anything and everything and pretty much run with it. Today's
blog is on the book James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl.
James Henry Trotter
is a four year old boy who lives with is parents in a house by the
sea happily. When James' parents are killed by a rhinoceros. The
orphaned James is forced to live with his two abusive aunts, Spiker
and Sponge. They treat him badly, feed him improperly and force him
to sleep on bare floorboards.
One day after an
argument with his aunts, he meets a mysterious man who gives him
green beans and says that if he would drink it his life would be full
of adventures. While going to his home he falls and the beans spill
on a peach tree which produces a single peach and it grows to the
size of a house. Spiker and sponge build fences around it and earn
money by selling tickets to tourists and they get to see the peach.
But James is locked up in his house an sees the peach through the
bars of the window.
James is assigned
to clean the trash and finds a tunnel in the peach and goes through
it and meets Centipede, Miss Spider, Old Green Grasshopper,
Earthworm, Ladybug, Glowworm and Silkworm. Who become his friends.
The next day
centipede cuts the stem of the peach which rolls down and kills the
aunts and reaches the sea. Sharks surround it, James used miss spider
and silkworm to make threads then he uses earthworm as bait and
draws 501 seagulls near the peach and ties the threads around their
necks. Then the peach starts flying and centipede falls down but is
later rescued by James. The peach goes into the clouds and meet cloud
men demons. The centipede mocks them which makes them angry and they
start throwing hailstones at the peach. James manages to pull the
peach down on a lower part of the sky and realises they have reached
New York City. People think it was a bomb and warn the others to
evacuate.
Then officers and
firemen arrive and see the peach and some faint. Then James comes and
tells the whole story and becomes friends with several children in
New York and they eat the peach and James and his friends get their
own jobs.
- James and the
Giant Peach (NOVEL) Wiki.
I read the
book in primary school after seeing the 1996 movie of the same name.
Personally I like the movie more than the book however the book is
written well and is pretty high up on my Dahl's decent books list. I
definitely recommend it to the 8-12 year olds, families and those who
are on a nostalgia kick. I give the book an overall 7/10.
The movie
came out in 1996 when I was six years old. Henry Selick was the
director and Tim Burton was one of the directors. The movie has a
slight twist in plot due to the inclusion of a nightmare Rhino and
pirate skeletons. Whilst I love the movie now there was a time when
it was pretty much nightmare fuel for a six/seven year old me. I
recommend the movie to families and movie nerds searching fro
nostalgia and I give the movie an 8/10.
Roald Dahl
is the writer of this book and My opinion of him is in the Matilda
blog post of 07/01/2020 if you wish to give it a read.
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