Stella and Rose's Books Logo

Stella & Rose's Books

Specialists in Rare & Collectable Books

JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH

Written by Roald Dahl
Illustrated by Michel Simeon
Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd. in 1967
ISBN: 0048230782

Sorry but we don't currently have any copies of this book in stock. If you would like to contact us we can let you know the moment we get one in stock.

Front cover

Cover of JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH by Roald Dahl

Contents

  • The plot centres on a young English orphan boy who enters a gigantic, magical peach, and has a wild and surreal cross-world adventure with seven magically-altered garden bugs he meets. Roald Dahl was originally going to write about a giant cherry, but changed it to James and the Giant Peach because a peach is "prettier, bigger and squishier than a cherry.