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LoveReading4Kids Says
Best-selling Roald Dahl has delighted children for half a century and this 50th anniversary edition celebrates that amazing feat. His titles show no sign of ageing and thankfully they never will as all of them are timeless classics.
From the moment the magical Giant Peach appears in James’s unhappy life, sweeps away his deadly Aunts Spiker and Sponge and lifts him off on the adventure of a life time all readers know they are in for a treat. 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. A classic story that can be read again and again.
For added fun: Roald Dahl Day is on 13th September every year. This year's celebrations focus lots of attention on the 50th anniversary of James and the Giant Peach but that's not everything. Why not get the kids to click on some of the links below to see what a huge amount of fun they can have, from joining the mission to push peaches around the world or organising a reading relay.
For year round fun with Roald Dahl click here.
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James and the Giant Peach Synopsis
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Presenting a magical new reading of Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach, read by iconic British comedian James Acaster. This immersive audiobook is bursting with fantabulous sound effects, dynamic sound design, and original music composed by Rusty Bradshaw.
James Henry Trotter is about to go on the adventure of a lifetime . . .
James lives with his awful Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker, two of the meanest people you can imagine!
Life isn't much fun at all, until something peculiar happens at the bottom of his garden . . .
A peach at the very top of a tree begins to grow . . . and grow . . . and GROW! Inside are seven very unusual insects -- all waiting to take James on a magical journey.
But where will this very special GIANT PEACH take James and his new friends? And what will happen to his horrible aunts if they stand in their way?
Listen to James and the Giant Peach and other fantastical Roald Dahl audiobooks, including:
George's Marvellous Medicine, read by Romesh Ranganathan.
Matilda, read by Kate Winslet.
The BFG, read by David Walliams.
The Twits, read by Richard Ayoade.
The Witches, read by Lolly Adefope.
© The Roald Dahl Story Company Ltd, 1961 (P) 2022 Penguin Audio
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9780241547625 |
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21st July 2022 |
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Roald Dahl |
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Puffin an imprint of Penguin Random House Children's UK |
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CD-Audio |
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About Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl was born in Wales of Norwegian parents – the child of a second marriage. His father and elder sister died when Roald was just three. His mother was left to raise two stepchildren and her own four children. Roald was her only son.
He had an unhappy time at school - at Llandaff Cathedral School, at St Peter’s prep school in Weston-super-Mare and then at Repton in Derbyshire.
Dahl’s unhappy time at school was to influence his writing greatly. He once said that what distinguished him from most other children’s writers was “this business of remembering what it was like to be young”. Roald’s childhood and schooldays are the subject of his autobiography Boy.
Since Roald Dahl’s death, his books have more than maintained their popularity. Total sales of the UK editions are around 37 million, with more than 1 million copies sold every year! Sales have grown particularly strongly in America where Dahl books are now achieving the bestselling status that curiously proved elusive during the author’s lifetime.
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