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  • Published: 5 July 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241558331
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $16.99

James and the Giant Peach




The much-loved Roald Dahl story, updated for a whole new generation of readers with an exciting new interior design and cover look

"Bigger and bigger grew the peach, bigger and bigger and BIGGER."

James Henry Trotter is about to go on the adventure of a lifetime.

James lives his awful Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker, two of the meanest people you can imagine.

Life isn't much fun at all, until something peculiar happens at the bottom of his garden . . .

A peach at the very top of a tree begins to grow . . . and grow . . . and GROW! Inside are seven very unusual insects - all waiting to take James on a magical journey.

  • Published: 5 July 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241558331
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $16.99

About the authors

Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. He was also the author of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG and many more brilliant stories.

Quentin Blake

Quentin Blake has illustrated more than three hundred books and was Roald Dahl's favourite illustrator. In 1980 he won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal. In 1999 he became the first ever Children's Laureate and in 2013 he was knighted for services to illustration.

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