Rating: Summary: James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Review: This book is outstanding, adventurous, and you never know what is going to happen next! The story is about a boy, named James, who wants to be free from his awful aunts. James accidently drops the magic crystals he's been given and they sink into the soil. Amazing things begin to happen to an old peach tree as well as to creatures who turn gigantic. James and the oversized creatures ride the giant peach into many adventures. They meet sharks, seagulls and cloud men along their journey. James and his friends want to reach a safe and beautiful place to live. Will their dreams come true? We loved this book because it was funny with lots of action and adventure. We would love to read a new book, James and the Giant Peach, Part II !
Rating: Summary: James and The Gaint Peach Review: The story " James and the Gaint Peach", by Roald Dahl is a good story for young readers. James's Aunt's, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker treat James like a slave. When James finds the magic alligator tongues thats when the magic starts!!! The magic alligator tongues form a great peach, and gaint bugs inside. The gaint peach, bugs and james go on a magic trip. Splash! The gaint peach fell into the middle of the sea. The characters encounter sharks and cloud men. When my teacher read it to us, we always wanted him to read more. If you like adventures and excitement, "James and the Gaint Peach" is a book for you. It is the best chapter book I was ever read!!!
Rating: Summary: James and the jiant peace~ Ronald Dahl~ Review: The plot of this book is for James and his friends, which are insects I might add, to go to the city of New York to be safe from James aunts. It has a good plot, but it could use a little more reason for James to for fill the plot. I mean it was his dream to go there one day, and be safe from his aunts, but it could use a little more reason. For example, It could be because it was his dream to go there and be safe from his aunts, but it could also be because it was what his parents told him to go before the rhino killed them. Over all it is a pretty good book for some, but it just doesn't fulfill my expectations. I like more of mystical books, it does have some magic, but not enough. So if to like a normal book with a little twist, please read this book.
Rating: Summary: James and the Giant Peach Review: ...I am giving James and the Giant Peach 5 stars because it is fun to read even in school. The author(Roald Dahl)is a great writer.I loved James and the Giant Peach. It is a pretty funny especially the bugs. The End
Rating: Summary: James and the giant peach Review: Our class read this book. We love all of Roald Dahl's books because he uses Scrumdiddlyumptious words like: Whangdoodle,Blunderheads, Knid, Manticore, Flabbergasted and Snozzwanger. He made the centipede a real wizzy character. We liked the lazy Silkworm. When James hooked the seagulls to the peach it was funny because the Earthworm worried a lot about the seagulls biting him. It was funny when the firemen and policemen fainted away. On the last page we saw all the insects when they were small on the tree. ...
Rating: Summary: James and the Giant Peach Review: Hey, I give this book 4 stars. This book is great for classroom reading.It was a great book,the author(Roald Dahl)put a lot of thinking and James has a lot of courage.Roald Dahl always thinks when he writes action,movement words.
Rating: Summary: James And The Giant Peach Review: I give it 4 instead of 5 because Rhoald Dahl could have given a better way for James's parents to errr... pass away. But I really liked the arguments because they were fun to read out loud. As for 1 more pesemist part, the author could have made the New York fiasco a little more... bad.
Rating: Summary: James and the Giant Peach Review: The author has good words in his writing. I like what he thinks. He has very good ideas.
Rating: Summary: One of the great children's books Review: ... James and the Giant Peach is the first from this. Jill's been trying to get me to read this children's book for years, *knowing* that I would appreciate it. She was right, of course. I loved it. It's exactly the type of children's book that I look for: not sickly sweet with a sledgehammer moral, but sly and wicked and funny and irreverant, with an underlying ethical framework that I can agree with. Characters in books like these can be exaggerated (as Dahl did with wonderful effect in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), but they contain a kernel of what we see in our everyday world--things like greed, egoism, abuse, unhappiness, etc. ...
Rating: Summary: James and the Giant Peach, A Children's Novel Review: As a 5th grader in my elementary school, I read James and the Giant Peach cover to cover 5 times, out of my own will. Roald Dahl's fiction work in this novel is fantastic, as well as fascinating. This selection describes the story of James, a young boy and his trip across the Atlantic Ocean, on a huge peach! James has several encounters including a shark attack, being attacked by cloud men, and having a run in with a group of Cloud Men, who are painting a rainbow. It all begins when James parents are violently scarfed down by two rhinos on the escape from the London Zoo, and poor James is sent to live with his Aunts, Spiker and Sponge. While working in a garden, James is approached by a fearful looking creature, much like a goblin, who gives him several special wormlike organisms in a plastic bag. With the right recipe, these organisms spell H-E-A-V-E-N for James, yet he drops them onto the ground... As an extraordinary children's bedtime novel, I rate this book Five Stars.
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