James and the Giant Peach Audio

Author - Roald Dahl ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Audio Cassette Book item from HarperChildrensAudio was reviewed on 6-Nov-2008.

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1) Audio Cassette Book James and the Giant Peach Audio by HarperChildrensAudio. This is the rare instance where I´ve read the book but haven´t seen the movie. You know, some stories are better in book form and some are better in movie form. After reading James and the Giant Peach, I believe it works better as a movie. It has more action than it does ideas, and I enjoyed the illustrations much more than the actual text, unlike Alice In Wonderland or Winnie The Pooh.

Dahl´s prose seems a bit clunky in my opinion, but at least it should be easy for kids to understand. It´s ugly in form, but not in function. It doesn´t flow off the tongue, but it´s very clear. (Perhaps I´m too used to late 19th century childrens´ literature.) Some of his poetry is quite highbrow and amusing however, particularly his poems about the fat and skinny aunts. The Giant Peach story is okay, but not really spectacular, and the fellow with the bag of squiggly green things that make the peach grow is never explained. He simply shows up like the angel that wrestled against Jacob in the Bible. I usually like things like that.

I should note that I enjoyed Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator a little more than this book. But I still haven´t read the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Eh, no big deal. I have a feeling it makes a better movie than it does a book anyway. Dahl may be a magnificent inspiration for screenwriters but I think Kipling´s Just So Stories blows this book away.¤

2) Audio Cassette Book James and the Giant Peach Audio by HarperChildrensAudio. I started reading this book to my 5 year old daughter a few days ago and we are both in love. It is funny, thrilling and joyful. The use of language is arrful and clever. I have never, so enjoyed a children´s book. I´m either a big child, or this is more than a mere child´s play.¤

3) Audio Cassette Book James and the Giant Peach Audio by HarperChildrensAudio. I can´t say enough good things about this book. My kids & I just love it. The chapters are short, which makes it a bit easier for the kids to read, and the story is so engaging it has all all on the edge of our seats, waiting to hear what will happen next. Such a fun book!¤

4) Audio Cassette Book James and the Giant Peach Audio by HarperChildrensAudio. Ever been in a giant flying peach? James and the giant peach by Roald Dahl tells about a boy who´s parents get eaten by a giant rhino, goes to live with his evil aunts, then rolls away in a giant peach. To begin, His parents take him to the London Zoo when only to encounter a loose rhinoceros. The rhino eats James´ parents to leave him on the streets. Then, he goes to live with his evil aunts, Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge. They treat him very badly and don´t let him play with other kids. Finally, an old man comes and gives James some magic crystals. Then a giant peach grows, James crawls in the peach to find some unusually large insects. They then roll away in a giant peach in hope of finding a better place.
Read this book to find out what happens to James and the giant peach
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5) Audio Cassette Book James and the Giant Peach Audio by HarperChildrensAudio. I bought this for my 5-year old son 3 weeks ago and we haven´t stopped listening to it. Roald Dahl has a beautifully warped view of the world, with parents killed tragically, evil aunts and innocent, precocious children. James is a wonderful example. Jeremy Irons brings real range to the interpretation of the characters, so we all - parents and child - find ourselves chuckling as we drive and listen (and will do for a long time to come). A treat for children (and their sainted parents also).¤

6) Audio Cassette Book James and the Giant Peach Audio by HarperChildrensAudio. "Marvelous things will start happening to you -- fabulous, unbelievable things..."

When young, miserable James Henry Trotter accidentally draps the magic crystals he recived from an old man, strange things do start happening. Atop the old peach tree where a blossom has never even sprouted, a peach begins to grow, and grow, and grow. James crawls inside and meets a bizarre group of human-sized companions -- including Earthworm, Ladybug, and Centipede. Soon James´ nasty Aunt Sponge and Anut Spiker are miles away as he rolls off on a fantistic, wiled adventure with his new friends.

7) Audio Cassette Book James and the Giant Peach Audio by HarperChildrensAudio. When poor James Henry Trotter loses his parents in a horrible rhinoceros accident, he is forced to live with his two wicked aunts, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. After three years he becomes "the saddest and loneliest boy you could find." Then one day, a wizened old man in a dark-green suit gives James a bag of magic crystals that promise to reverse his misery forever. When James accidentally spills the crystals on his aunts´ withered peach tree, he sets the adventure in motion. From the old tree a single peach grows, and grows, and grows some more, until finally James climbs inside the giant fruit and rolls away from his despicable aunts to a whole new life. James befriends an assortment of hilarious characters, including Grasshopper, Earthworm, Miss Spider, and Centipede--each with his or her own song to sing. Roald Dahl´s rich imagery and amusing characters ensure that parents will not tire of reading this classic aloud, which they will no doubt be called to do over and over again! With the addition of witty black and white pencil drawings by Lane Smith (of The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs fame), upon which the animation for the Disney movie was based, this classic, now in paperback, is bursting with renewed vigor. We´ll just come right out and say it: James and the Giant Peach is one of the finest children´s books ever written. (Ages 9 to 12)¤

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