James and the Giant Peach (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

A classic work by the author of Fantastic Mr. Fox follows the adventures of orphan James Trotter, whose life with two wicked aunts is transformed by a magical encounter. Reissue.
A young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of adventures with six giant insects he meets inside a giant peach.
When a mysterious old man gives James some magical, tiny green things, he certainly never imagines that they will grow into an enormous peach.
A stunning 50th-anniversary deluxe edition of Roald Dahl’s beloved James and the Giant Peach, featuring ?a new introduction by Aimee Bender, the New York Times bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake ?cover art by the award-winning cartoonist Jordan Crane ?the original interior art from the 1961 first edition ?French flaps and deckle-edge paper Roald Dahl's perennial bestseller about a boy's magical journey across the sea, James and the Giant Peach, celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in 2011. When James, a boy stuck living with his cantankerous aunts, is given magic crystals by a sympathetic wizard, he accidentally drops them at the foot of the peach tree outside his house, causing one of the fruits to grow the size of a house. Inside he finds oversized insects who promise him deliverance from his aunts, and soon the giant peach is rolling downhill, bound for the Atlantic Ocean and beyond on a magnificent adventure that will take James and his new friends far indeed.
An enormous escaped rhinoceros from London Zoo has eaten James's parents. And it gets worse! James is packed off to live with his two really horrible aunts, Sponge and Spiker. Poor James is miserable, until something peculiar happens and James finds himself on the most wonderful and extraordinary journey he could ever imagine... A new and delectable Deluxe edition of this wonderful classic.