James and the Giant Peach

James and the Giant Peach is a popular 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 reillustrated versions of it over the years, done by Michael Simeon, Emma Chichester Clark, Lane Smith and Quentin Blake. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1996, and a musical in 2010. 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." Because of the story's occasional macabre and potentially frightening content, it has become a regular target of censors.

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An orphan escapes the cruel life provided by his two aunts by embarking on an adventure to New York City with a group of anthropomorphic bugs who live inside a giant peach. It based on Roald Dahl's novel of the same name.

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Henry Selick directed the Disney movie which was produced by Tim Burton and Denise Di Novi. It combines a mix of live-action and stop-motion animation. Randy Newman earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score.

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Novels by Roald Dahl.. Children's books by Roald Dahl.. Talking animals in fiction.. Novels set in England.. Novels about orphans.. British fantasy novels.. Alfred A. Knopf books.. British children's novels.

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