A stunning 50th-anniversary deluxe edition of Roald Dahl's beloved
James and the Giant Peach, featuring
--a new introduction by Aimee Bender, the New York Times bestselling
author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
--cover art by the award-winning cartoonist Jordan Crane
--the original interior art from the 1961 first edition
--French flaps and deckle-edged paper
James and the Giant Peach is a perennial bestseller about a boy's
magical journey across the sea, by one of the most beloved storytellers
of our time. When James, a boy stuck living with his cantankerous aunts,
is given magic crystals by a sympathetic wizard, he accidentally drops
them at the foot of the peach tree outside his house, causing one of the
fruits to grow the size of a house. Inside he finds oversized insects
who promise him deliverance from his aunts, and soon the giant peach is
rolling downhill, bound for the Atlantic Ocean and beyond on a
magnificent adventure that will take James and his new friends far
indeed.
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