The BFG

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Summary: Best, hilarious, comical, great~!
Review: Did u ever write a story before? NOT a simple easy story, a creative hard story? Or maybe a pretty hard story. Well, what did it take to make that? It takes creativity, time, imagination and concentration! Well, I think Roald Dahl used all of those quite well, and made this wonderful story! The BFG stands for the Big Friendly Giant, and that's true. An orphan girl named Sophie, meets a giant one night. The BFG was huge compared to Sophie, and he took Sophie to Giant Country. At first Sophie was terribly scared, but soon she understood the BFG. Then Sophie gets the chills when she hears about the other mean, 2 times taller than the BFG, half naked, ugly, stupid giants that eat kids at night. Together, the BFG and Sophie try to stop them. It is very unique how she does it, and u will never be able to guess correctly! U have to read this book! If u don't, I think that your wasting a great opportunity to read a wonderful magnificent book!!! I recommend this book to everyone, and this will thrill a lot of ppl! I suggest this book to about 9 year olds to 12 year olds! I hope u read it, and enjoy it as I did! Once u start, u will never be able to stop!

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Summary: The Big Friendly Story
Review: Tim Maddux
October 16, 2001
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The BFG
Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl's The BFG tells the story of two opposites coming together, becoming friends, and coming up with an idea to save others. The Big Friendly Giant snatches Sophie, a little English girl, from her window, during the witching hour. Sophie and the Giant venture off to Giant Country, where she learns of the other "human bean"-- eating giants and the true personality of the Big Friendly Giant. The two learn many things about each other and devise a way to save the humans of the world from being eaten by the nine other giants. The Big Friendly Giant and Sophie work well with and learn a lot from each other.
The BFG conveys the important themes of friendship, understanding, and humorous imagination. Readers of any age can appreciate the book. The BFG is heart-warming, yet downright funny!
Roald Dahl's book has been banned because some people feel that it is too mature for a young audience. Many believe the book teaches poor moral values. However, the words, along with the illustrations, in the book can stir any reader's curiosity. The uneducated language of the Big Friendly Giant makes the book more child-friendly too. The BFG also teaches readers a positive message. In the latter part of the story, the queen tells her army not to kill the nine "human bean"-eating giants when they propose the idea. The army generals believe that the murderous giants should be slain. The queen responds with a strong moral statement when she says that killing the giants would be wrong. This part of the story sends a tremendously positive moral statement. I disagree with those who feel that The BFG should be a banned book. The BFG is one of the best children's books I have ever read.

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Summary: The BFG
Review: The BFG
By: Roald Dahl
Reviewed by J. Yeh
Period: P.1

The BFG, written by Roald Dahl is about a young orphan who met a giant called the Big Friendly Giant. One night the orphan named Sophie couldn't sleep and out the window she saw an outline of something big. She saw it blow things into the windows with a trumpet. Sophie ran back to her bed and hid under her blanket. Next thing she knew when she peeped out was that a hand snatched her from the bed out of the window. Inside his hand was Sophia watching everything past her while the giant ran fast. They got to the cave where he lived and the giant set Sophie on the table. The BFG told her everything like why she was taken and his life. A giant bigger than the BFG came in and thought there was someone in the cave because the BFG was talking to Sophie. Sophie hid in what the giant calls snozzcumbers. The enormous giant went around searching for the human being but couldn't find her, and soon left. The BFG took Sophie to the Dream Country where the giant caught all his dreams. He didn't like the nightmare dreams and got really mad when he caught one. He caught a nightmare and left the country. He blew the dream into another giant. Suddenly the giant started squirming around and screamming. After a while all the giants got into a big quarrel. The BFG showed Sophie all his dreams he had caught and she read the labels written on them. There were dreams for girls and boys. Sophie thought of an idea of how to get rid of the other giants. So the BFG mixed the dreams for the queen to have about all the giants gobbling up human beings. They took a while to mix it and in the night while the other giants were gone, they blew the dream into the queen's bedroom. She woke up thinking that it was only a dream. Sophia was sitting by her bed like it was in the dream. She convinced her that the dream was real. So the queen sent army men and helicopters to capture the giants. They tied the giants up while they were sleeping and flew them into a pit where they couldn't escape.

I liked this book because it was kind of funny and interesting at the same time. One quote that I liked was,"One night, I is blowing a dream through a window and I sees this book lying on the little boy's bedroom table. I wanted it so very badly, you understand. But I is refusing to steal it. I would never do that." This quote tells me how much the BFG would never do anything horrible. Another quote I liked was,"Bravo! You is very good for a beginner! Let's have some more!" This quote was kind of funny to me because it seemed like the BFG was drunk.

My favorite part of the book was when Sophia and the BFG were mixing the dreams up for the queen to have so that the other giants would stop eating human beings. I liked it because it seemed interesting by the way the author described how it looked.

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Summary: The BFG's the book you've been looking forward to !!!!!!
Review: This is an extraordinary book, and the reader is immediately drawn into the fascinating tale. It begins like this.........

Sophie is an orphan... One night, the moon was pouring in all it's brightness through her windows, casting light directly on her pillow....., unable to sleep, then, Sophie looks out of the window and.....that's when she finds herself caught by a giant called the BFG (the big Friendly Giant), but a giant so friendly and kind, that when other giants go searching for edible humans every night, he eats horrible cucumber kind of vegetables. Soon after Sophie and the BFG gets to be friends and goes to meet Queen Elizabeth for help. In the end, Sophie gets to live in a big palace with the BFG. I couldn't put this book down, so I read it in one day! It's terribly funny and interesting. It's the kind of book everyone will love reading.

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Summary: pure, vintage Dahl!!
Review: Young Sophie lies awake in her orphanage at the Witching Hour! She can't sleep and strange, macabre thoughts go through her head. The real fun begins, however, when she creeps to her window and sees a giant figure poking about in the 2nd floor windows across the street! My gosh, it's a GIANT!! The real fun begins when he kidnaps her from her bed and runs off to the land of giants.

In the hands of a less capable author than Dahl, this plotline would soon fizzle and become ho-hum humdrum. Say what you will, Dahl is a very, VERY capable author and this book is simply fabulous. While most giants are the people eating kind (with colorful names like Childchewer, Bloodbottler and Fleshlumpeater), Sophie is lucky to have been captured by the BFG-- Big Friendly Giant! He's no guzzler of people (known in Giantspeak as "human beans"-- giants don't go to school and their grammer is somewhat lacking) but is rather a gentle soul who has a special trade to ply in the human world. There's only two small problems: the BFG lives in the land of giants where the other louts would only be too glad to guzzle her right up, and there's no food other than a strange, disgusting vegetable called a snozzcumber (it tastes like frog skins and dead fish). So, while Sophie's happy not to have been eaten up, she's none to happy to find that there's always that threat of being discovered and noting for HER to eat. Besides, the other giants (much bigger than the BFG) are constantly running to other countries to guzzle human beans by the cartload (Chille beans are especially yummy, we're told...). Something MUST be done... but what? Maybe she should go tell the queen...

I came to Dahl's work late in life (that is, recently, not in childhood) and have slowly been making my way through his works. So far, "The BFG" ranks as his best work. It is continuously engaging, very funny, and keeps the reader engaged from page 1 all the way through to the end. Young or intermediate readers may have difficulty with some of the phonetically spellings and Dahl-inspired words like "snozzcumber", "whizzpopping" and the generally gobbled-up grammar of the giants' speech. Still, it is a fantastic, fast-paced story that will be enjoyed for years to come by young and old. Highly recommended.

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Summary: This is a Total Blast
Review: This book is the fiction story that you MUST read! It's about a girl named sophie who's an orphan that finds joy in a Big Friendly Giant. You can't let this story pass without reading it. I give it 2 thumbs up!

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Summary: Just one word... WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This book ROCKS!!! I mean, seriously!!! You should really read this book!!! If you don't, your missing out on a lot, ...!!! Really, you HAVE to read this book!!!!!!

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Summary: THIS IS A KOOL BOOK
Review: THIS BOOK IS REALLY COOL. MY TEACHER MR.DAVENPORT READ THIS BOOK TO US IN THIRD GRADE. I'M STILL TRYING TO GET MY HANDS ON IT! IT'S A RELLY POPULAR BOOK. THIS BOOK HAS EVERYTHING. IT'S ABOUT A GIRL WHO IS LIVING IN A GRIL'S HOME. THEN A GIANT BEAST COMES AND TAKES HER TO A MAGICAL PLACE. BFG. IT STANDS FOR BIG FRIENDLEY GIANT. PLEASE GET THIS BOOK AT TRUST ME. YOU WON'T BE DISSAPOINTED.

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Summary: A 5 star review
Review: The BFG is a kind giant who wisks away a small girl named Shopie. But soon after the BFG and Shopie become friends, they go on an adventure to save people around the world from the other giants in Giant Land. The Queen of England calls the head of the army to capture these other horrible, flesheating giants. Sophie rides in the ear of the BFG and together, they guide the army to Giant Land.

This heart warming story is recomended to anyone who likes couragous kids and both nice and mean giants. I've read this book five times and so far its never gotten boring. I hope you like this book as much as I did.

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Summary: Perfection by Roald Dahl
Review: Roald Dahl is a complete genius he makes up these stories that no one ever would have thought of and then when he publishes them everyone loves them. In this case when I heard the story I was addicted (I was also in third grade) this is a perfect story for children. The premise is that this little girl Sophie during the "Witching Hour" is taken away by this giant named the BFG and they go back to his land of giants. But when she gets there she is expecting giants just like the BFG but no they are all awful. Of course mayhem insues like in any story and it is written wonderfully with just a tad of violence but with a lesson behind it that teaches children that violence is not the answer to any problem. I would recommend this to children who are between second and fifth grade because the dialouge and vocabulary may be a little hard for them otherwise. I hope that this review has been helpful to you!