James and the Giant Peach

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Summary: Nonsense
Review: James and the Giant Peach is simply nonsense. If you like nonsense then you may like this book. The story is as simple as the other reviews make it sound: A giant peach grows, he crawls inside, he meets some big insects. That's basically it. It is not clever. I did not find it funny. I would have given it only one star, but my son liked it, saying, "Dahl writes good books, but they're strange." I feel sorry for anyone who feels this is their favorite childhood book.

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Summary: A good book for relaxation
Review: This book, "James and Giant Peach" is WOUNDERFUL! Jame's adventures are full of creative imaginations that brings you to a magic world! The author, Roald Dahl was really great. He had a sense of humor and good writing skills that inspires you to read on.You can find a lot of fun in reading Roald Dalh's books. Therefore,reading Roald Dahl's books for relaxation is really good!

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Summary: Review by Andy Liu of James and the Giant peach
Review: James Henry Trotter did not have a normal life. His parents were swallowed by an angry rhinoceros. When he goes to live with his aunts for three years,the adventure begins. This man gives him 1,000 magic little things. James falls and loses the 1,000 magic things. A peach starts to grow into a gigantic peach. Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker are getting a lot of money because a lot of people want to see the peach. So as the giant peach starts rolling, James and his insect friends have a adventure of their life. I like James Henry Trotter because he is always coming up with ideas. I also like him because he is smart and never gets put down. I don't like Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker because they push James around and make him do chores. My favorite part of the story was when Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker got squashed flat by the giant peach because they deserved to be squashed. My least favorite part of the story was when James had to pick up garbage because Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spikerare counting their money. I think that Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker are mean because they never do any chores by themselves. Another part in the story that was funny was when James and his friends got attacked by sharks. It was really funny because the sharks couldn't bite the peach. This book is like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory because James Henry Trotter and Charlie both have a happy ending. I like Roald Dahl because he has made many hilarous books. For example, the vicar of Nibbleswick is hilarious because he has to walk backwards to talk the right way. Roald Dahl books usually have a happy ending because at the end of the Magic finger, the Greg family stops shooting things. I recommend this book to people who like adventure books and people who like happy endings at ages 7& up. This is because the book might be boring for people who like a different more serious type of book.

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Summary: A review of James And The Giant Peach (Alice Z)
Review: During early December, I read a very interesting book named "James and the Giant Peach" that I would like to recommend. It is about a boy's life from ages 4~8. His parents were nice to him and they lived along the seashore peacefully with lots of other children, but then something terrible happened. During a bright, sunny day, while his parents were going shopping, an angry rhinoceros escaped from the London Zoo and ate them up alive. Poor James was forced to live with his nasty aunts doing all the dirty work while they were relaxing. One day, James met a stranger who gave him magic crocodile tounges. But Oops! James dropped it near the peach tree and a peach started to grow. While James was picking up garbage near the enormus peach the next night, he spotted a hole in the peach. What was that hole? Read this book to find out.

I really enjoyed this book because it is kind of a fantasy and adventure story. It really takes you inside with all the exaggeration. For example, there are really exciting things like the cloudmen, the sharks, landing on the Empire State Building and living in a pit. I'd like to recommend this book to any fantasy or adventure lover.

My favorite part was when Aunt Spiker & Aunt Sponge got flattened like pancakes when the paech rolled on them because they were so mean to James and so this is like a lesson to them and poor James' revenge. My least favorite part was when James had to help centipede take off all 42 shoes tied in really tangled knots for 2 hours until he could sleep.
How did the peach grow so big? How did James and the creatures make friends and communicate? How did the peach roll over the nasty aunts and not die? What was it like to live inside a peach? Read this fabulous story and find out.

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Summary: wow
Review: I read this story as a kid, great imagination the author has. Even though I am far to old to read a book like this now I will reread it once again for old times sake.

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Summary: James and The Giant Peach review
Review: James and The Giant Peach is a great book for everyone. I first read the book when I was about seven, and the story was so amazing that I was imediatly captivated. The story is about a child named James whos parents die one night so he is forced to live with his two aunts, but his aunts are mean and treat him badly.In an attempt to escape the terrible aunts he embarks on a journey in a giant peach, hence the title name.Inside of the peach he meets a group of insects who quickly become his friends and then becomming like a family to him. This is annother one of those books that increases the imaginational skills in young people. This is a great book.

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Summary: james and the giant peach is the shiznit
Review: james is a little boy who has no friends and he moves with his aunt to her house and he has another aunt who is living with his other aunt and they just treat there little nephew like crap so one day he gets these magic seeds and plants them and this giant peach grows and he makes friends with a spider, centiped, grasshopper,and a lady bug but the lady bug is a male. so well james tells the his friends that his parents had died and he wants to get out of his aunts house. so one day all of his friends and james roll the peach into the ocean to make there way to new york and when they get there his aunts are there and his aunts are forcing james to come back home with them. so james tells the people that his aunts beat him, they dont feed him or anything. so the oficer decides to let james stay and live on his own with his friends and so james and his friends live happily ever after. so mr. white gives aaron a good grade after writting this review for his 5th period senior english class.

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Summary: James and the Giant Peach
Review: We enjoyed this book "again". Once you start to read this book you find it hard to put down. I am sure that students will feel like this also. This book is a must for a read aloud or for silent reading in a classroom. Many activities can be done with the concepts of James and the Giant Peach.

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Summary: My favorite book from childhood.
Review: I first read "James and the Giant Peach" when I was 9 years old (I am 14 now), and reread it so many times that I actually know the story by heart! This book is funny, exciting and makes me use my imagination.

The story: After his parents are eaten by a rhinoceros (I would've made a tiger eat them instead, since in real life rhinos don't eat meat!), young James Henry Trotter has to go live with his two mean aunts named Sponge and Spiker, who treat him very very badly. Poor James has to live with his aunts for three whole years until one day a mysterious man gives him a bag of magic things. (He tells him they are crocodile tongues.) James is so excited that he starts running back to the house, but when he is underneath an old peach tree in the garden he accidentally slips and spills all the tiny little things and they dig themselves into the roots of the tree.
Suddenly a peach appears on the very tip of the tree and then starts to grow and grow and doesn't stop until it is as big as a house! The aunts are so excited about this that instead of immediately eating pieces off the peach they start charging people to see the peach. After everyone has left they force James to pick up all the litter that the people left behind. Poor James is left all alone in the dark! For no particular reason, James walks up to the peach and starts touching it. He notices that there is a rather large hole in the peach. He crawls in, and he keeps on crawling until he reaches the center of the peach. He meets seven oversized insects who turn out to have swallowed some of the tiny little things that James had spilled. When the stem snips off (with some help, of course), the peach rolls off and the eight travellers embark on the adventure of a lifetime!

Roald Dahl was my favorite childhood author; I have read most of his children's books, and this is my personal favorite.

I recommend this book to anyone between the ages of 8 and 14.

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Summary: I want to read this book 800 times in a row.
Review: This book is good. At the beginning there is this boy who's mommy and daddy get eaten up by a rhinoceros so he had to go live with his aunts. It was Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge. Aunt Spiker is very thin and Aunt Sponge is very fat. A tiny man gives him a little package of alligator tongues that run off and go into a peach. The peach becomes big and big and big and big and the boy went inside of it and he met little friends. It rolled off and they had a really big adventure with the peach. I don't want to tell any more of the story because I don't want to tell the surprise.