James and the giant peach
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
James and the giant peach
AUTHOR:
Dahl, Roald
Blake, Quentin
ISBN:
9780241953303
PUBLICATION_INFO:
London : Puffin, 2011
PHYSICAL_DESC:
122 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm
GENERAL_NOTE:
Originally published: New York: Knopf, 1961; London: Allen & Unwin, 1967.
ABSTRACT:
James's aunts call him names, beat and starve him and make his life a misery. If only his parents hadn't been eaten by an escaped rhinoceros, he wouldn't be in this mess. But one day he meets a man who gives him a bag of magic crocodile tongues and so begins the adventure of his dreams.
SUBJECT:
| Aunts -- Juvenile fiction |
| Peach -- Juvenile fiction |
| Magic -- Juvenile fiction |
BIBSUMMARY:
James's aunts call him names, beat and starve him and make his life a misery. If only his parents hadn't been eaten by an escaped rhinoceros, he wouldn't be in this mess. But one day he meets a man who gives him a bag of magic crocodile tongues and so begins the adventure of his dreams.