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.
| Author | Roald Dahl |
| Illustrator | Nancy Ekholm Burkert (first US edition), Michael Simeon (first UK edition), Emma Chichester Clark (1990 UK edition), Quentin Blake (1995 edition), Lane Smith (1996 US edition), Jordan Crane (2011 50th anniversary edition) |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. |
About James and the Giant Peach
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.
Achievement of James and the Giant Peach
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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Latest information about James and the Giant Peach updated on July 28 2021.
