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James and the Giant Peach
1961 children's novel by Roald Dahl
James and the Giant Peach
James and the Giant Peach is a children's novel written in 1961 by British author Roald Dahl. The first edition, published by Alfred Knopf, featured illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. There have been re-illustrated versions of it over the years, drawn by Michael Simeon (for the first British edition), Emma Chichester Clark, Lane Smith and Quentin Blake. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1996 (with Smith being a conceptual designer) which was directed by Henry Selick, and a musical in 2010. The plot centres on an orphan boy who enters a gigantic, magical peach, and has a wild and surreal adventure with seven magically altered garden bugs he meets. Dahl was 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". Because of the story's occasional macabre and potentially frightening content, it has become a regular target of censors. Dahl dedicated the book to his six-year-old daughter...
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