Hardcover, 176 pages
English language
Published Sept. 10, 2002 by Alfred A. Knopf.
James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that looks boiled and Aunt Spiker is bony and screeching. He's very lonely until one day something peculiar happens. . . At the end of the garden a peach starts to grow and GROW AND GROW. Inside that peach are seven very unusual insects - all waiting to take James on a magical adventure. But where will they go in their GIANT PEACH, and what will happen to the horrible aunts if they stand in their way? There's only one way to find out . . .
Cute and sweet little story. Not as much depth as I've come to expect from Dahl, though; the characters were a bit one-note and it felt like it was missing an act. But it was very fun as a light bedtime story for about a week!
