James and the Giant Peach: (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
A stunning 50th-anniversary deluxe edition of Roald Dahl's beloved James and the Giant Peach, featuring--a new introduction by Aimee Bender, the New York Times bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake--cover art by the award-winning cartoonist Jordan Crane--the original interior art from the 1961 first edition--French flaps and deckle-edged paper James and the Giant Peach is a perennial bestseller about a boy's magical journey across the sea, by one of the most beloved storytellers of our time. When James, a boy stuck living with his cantankerous aunts, is given magic crystals by a sympathetic wizard, he accidentally drops them at the foot of the peach tree outside his house, causing one of the fruits to grow the size of a house. Inside he finds oversized insects who promise him deliverance from his aunts, and soon the giant peach is rolling downhill, bound for the Atlantic Ocean and beyond on a magnificent adventure that will take James and his new friends far indeed