Author: Roald Dahl
Title: James and the giant peach
Illustrator: Quentin Blake
Genre: Children's Literature
Subgenre: Illustration
Theme: Majic
Primary and Secondary characters: James-Primary
Awards, date of publication: 2007
Publishing company: Puffin
James Henry Trotter leads a happy life until his parents are eaten by an escaped rhinoceros and he is thrust into the world of his nasty aunts, Sponge and Spiker. Then he becomes the saddest and loneliest boy you could find. When a little man in a dark green suit gives James a bag of magic crystals, the story takes off. James finds an "ancient peach tree that never gave any peaches," but with the magic crystals, it suddenly does! A single peach grows and keeps growing until James can climb inside and roll away from his horrible aunts to a whole new life. James befriends overgrown garden dwellers, Grasshopper, Earthworm, Miss Spider and Centipede. This book would be great to use in the classroom when discussing fantasy literature in a language arts class.
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