James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
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Book Reviews of James and the Giant Peach
Book Review: A James and The Giant Peach Review!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
James and The Giant Peach
James is a boy that has two wicked aunts. They are the cruelest and most bitter ladies that James has ever known; they even make him do all of these hard labors in their humongous land that they own, and the land couldn't even grow one plant or crop!
Then one day James gets hands on these magic worms that he is not to let released. By accident he knocks them over and cannot get them back, because they were too fast! All of the sudden magic starts happening and this large stem grows out of the ground. The next time that James went out there, there was a peach growing off of the stem. But it was no ordinary peach it was a giant peach! The cruel aunts were thinking nothing about themselves and were making money off of the peach that they didn't even grow!
The peach grows so big that while James was cleaning up the mess, that the media and any person who paid money to see, the peach rolled over James and took him on a wild ride around town; causing destruction of the Chocolate factory. Chocolate flied everywhere! James goes on a travel around the world using all of his smarts to get out of danger and destruction of himself! James doesn't know that there are living human size bugs on boarded!! Are those bugs' killer bugs or will they help James on his travel??? Read the book for yourself to find out!!
I thought that James and the Giant Peach was one of the greatest books that I have read this year!! The book holds loads of details that make the book interesting and worthy of the Newberry Award that the book earned. The James and the Giant Peach is a fast read that all most everyone enjoys. James and the Giant Peach is one of the greatest books I read, and I say that James and the Giant Peach is a book you should read in your near future!
Book Review: James and the Giant Peach
Summary: 5 Stars
James and the Giant Peach
James is a boy that has two wicked aunts. They are the cruelest and most bitter ladies that James has ever known; they even make him do all of these hard labors in their humongous land that they own, and the land couldn't even grow one plant or crop!
Then one day James gets hands on these magic worms that he is not to let released. By accident he knocks them over and cannot get them back, because they were too fast! All of the sudden magic starts happening and this large stem grows out of the ground. The next time that James went out there, there was a peach growing off of the stem. But it was no ordinary peach it was a giant peach! The cruel aunts were thinking nothing about themselves and were making money off of the peach that they didn't even grow!
The peach grows so big that while James was cleaning up the mess, that the media and any person who paid money to see, the peach rolled over James and took him on a wild ride around town; causing destruction of the Chocolate factory. Chocolate flied everywhere! James goes on a travel around the world using all of his smarts to get out of danger and destruction of himself! James doesn't know that there are living human size bugs on boarded!! Are those bugs' killer bugs or will they help James on his travel??? Read the book for yourself to find out!!
I thought that James and the Giant Peach was one of the greatest books that I have read this year!! The book holds loads of details that make the book interesting and worthy of the Newberry Award that the book earned. The James and the Giant Peach is a fast read that all most everyone enjoys. James and the Giant Peach is one of the greatest books I read, and I say that James and the Giant Peach is a book you should read in your near future!
Book Review: An absolute masterpiece!
Summary: 5 Stars
James Trotter is the kind of boy whose life is so miserable that it makes me think Harry Potter should quit complaining about the Dursleys. James's legal guardians, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker, are so cruel that they think nothing of administering a beating, or leaving James in the bottom of a well overnight.
But young Trotter's life takes a turn for the better, or at least the more exciting, when he bobbles a bag of magical crystals that create a giant peach and a cast of enormous insects living inside it. Before long, James is on a wonderful adventure across the ocean, seeking happiness in a world that has been far too cruel to him to date.
This is one of the best Dahl stories ever, ranking right up there with Danny Champion of the World and The BFG. The major plot turns and the tiny details are so well done that the reader is completely engrossed, from beginning to end. Scenes involving sharks and seagulls are thrilling, and the prose is littered with funny rhymes and songs that a child will enjoy hearing read aloud.
My edition is illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert, and I have to say that her drawings are some of the best I've ever seen in a children's book. I did enjoy the movie that came out a few years ago, but the book is better by far, so you might want to read the book first.
This is a guaranteed good time for any reluctant child reader. It's also a great read for adults.
Book Review: Every child should experience this book
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a glorious little tale about the giddiness of being a child. Yes, it is shockingly dark in the beginning, how poor James leads such a miserable existence, but once the peculiar things start to happen, Dahl takes readers on a joyful romp around the world.
There is one chapter that doesn't fit the tone at all, in which James basically interviews all of his mutated insect/arachnid/other companions about how valuable they are to humanity, and it comes across feeling like an editorially-mandated After School Special ("Hey kids! Be nice to bugs!"). I like to think that perhaps Dahl was mocking the inability of grown-ups to write for children without trying to bonk them on the heads with a lesson, but it's not artfully accomplished. The book is much stronger when the tone is cheeky and ludicrous, like when the gigantic Centipede composes enthusiastic limericks about the way an enormous peach squashed some of the villains of the story, or when Dahl rewards readers with the most spectacular role reversal of all for a lonely boy who has been denied the opportunity just to play with other children.
This book was first read to me in my kindergarten class, and I find that I love it more each time I read it for myself. If you care about children, you will share this book with them.
Book Review: Paul's Review
Summary: 5 Stars
"We need another seagull. Earthworm you have to!" said James. That's one of my favorite parts in James and The Giant Peach. Do you know who has written that book? It was written by Roald Dahl. I have three favorite parts. When they are in the water, on top of the Empire State Building, and when James first meets the creatures. James, Centipede, Spider, Silkworm, Earthworm, Ladybug, Glowworm, and Grasshopper are in the water trapped by sharks. Luckily, James sees at least 500 seagulls in the air. He has Spider and Silkworm spin silk to catch them. After every seagull was caught, they floated in the air and out of danger.
Near the end, James and all the creatures are on the Empire State Building. The fire department and the police department are all there waiting and thinking that James and the other creatures are aliens from another planet.
The best part was when James met all the creatures. He found the hole, the tunnel and then the door into the giant peach. He opened it and found the creatures sitting on the couch and chairs. He was shocked to see such things in his life.
I really enjoyed this book. Maybe you will to read James and The Giant Peach to find what else happens.