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James and the Giant Peach is a popular children's novel written in 1961 by British author Roald Dahl. The original first edition published by Alfred Knopf featured illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. However, there have been various reillustrated Read More..

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Description	James and the Giant Peach is a popular children's novel written in 1961 by British author Roald Dahl. The original first edition published by Alfred Knopf featured illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. However, there have been various reillustrated versions of it over the years, done by Michael Simeon for the first British edition, Emma Chichester Clark, Lane Smith and Quentin Blake. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1996.The plot centres on a young English orphan boy who enters a gigantic, magical peach, and has a wild and surreal cross-world adventure with seven magically-altered garden bugs he meets. Roald Dahl was originally going to write about a giant cherry, but changed it to James and the Giant Peach because a peach is "prettier, bigger and squishier than a cherry." Roald Dahl Fact Sheet: Puffin play ground Puffin BooksClarie Heald (11 June 2005) "Chocolate doors thrown open to Dahl". BBC NewsBecause of the story's occasional macabre and potentially frightening content, it has become a regular target of the censors and is No. 56 on the American Library Association's top 100 list of most frequently challenged books. The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000, American Library Association. The actor Jeremy Irons provides the English language audiobook recording. "James and the Giant Peach Audiobook". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 26 June 2015
Description	James and the Giant Peach is a popular children's novel written in 1961 by British author Roald Dahl. The original first edition published by Alfred Knopf featured illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. However, there have been various reillustrated versions of it over the years, done by Michael Simeon for the first British edition, Emma Chichester Clark, Lane Smith and Quentin Blake. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1996.The plot centres on a young English orphan boy who enters a gigantic, magical peach, and has a wild and surreal cross-world adventure with seven magically-altered garden bugs he meets. Roald Dahl was originally going to write about a giant cherry, but changed it to James and the Giant Peach because a peach is "prettier, bigger and squishier than a cherry." Roald Dahl Fact Sheet: Puffin play ground Puffin BooksClarie Heald (11 June 2005) "Chocolate doors thrown open to Dahl". BBC NewsBecause of the story's occasional macabre and potentially frightening content, it has become a regular target of the censors and is No. 56 on the American Library Association's top 100 list of most frequently challenged books. The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000, American Library Association. The actor Jeremy Irons provides the English language audiobook recording. "James and the Giant Peach Audiobook". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 26 June 2015

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Name	James and the Giant Peach.
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Authors	Roald Dahl
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Genre	Children's novel
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Language	English
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Country	United Kingdom
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Pages	160
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Media_type	Hardcover
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Oclc	50568125
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Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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Pub_date	1961
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Release_date	1961
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