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    James a'r Eirinen Wlanog Enfawr
    James a'r Eirinen Wlanog Enfawr
    James a'r Eirinen Wlanog Enfawr
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    James a'r Eirinen Wlanog Enfawr

    By Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake

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    A Welsh adaptation of James and the Giant Peach by Elin Meek, which follows the extraordinary escapades of James after he receives a bagful of magical crocodile tongues to enable him to escape from his two cruel aunts; for children aged 7-11 years old. A new edition.
    LanguageCymraeg
    PublisherRily
    Release dateJan 28, 2013
    ISBN9781849675062
    James a'r Eirinen Wlanog Enfawr
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    Roald Dahl

    Roald Dahl (1916-1990) es un autor justamente famoso por su extraordinario ingenio, su destreza narrativa, su dominio del humor negro y su inagotable capacidad de sorpresa, que llevó a Hitchcock a adaptar para la televisión muchos de sus relatos. En Anagrama se han publicado la novela "Mi tío Oswald" y los libros de cuentos "El gran cambiazo" (Gran Premio del Humor Negro), "Historias extraordinarias", "Relatos de lo inesperado" y "Dos fábulas". En otra faceta, Roald Dahl goza de una extraordinaria popularidad como autor de libros para niños.

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    • 3/5
      I loved this book when my dad read it to me. And then I grew up and read it myself and HOLY CRAP, ROALD DAHL WAS INSANE. There are giant bugs! It was so gross. And the cloud people, they were scary.
    • 3/5
      I re-read this via the read-a-long with Taika Waititi (and friends) on YouTube. It's not my favourite Roald Dahl book but the different actors reading it made it a lot more fun than I remember. It's still best as a stop-motion animated film though.
    • 5/5
      My second grade teacher read this book aloud to us. It was mesmerizing! I loved it so much I wanted to plant a peach tree in my backyard.
    • 4/5
      Young James was orphaned at four years-old and sent to live with his horrendous aunts, Sponge and Spiker, who force him to work non-stop around their hilltop house. One day a weird man appears and hands James a bag of magic stuff, telling him that if he dissolves the stuff in water and drinks it, his life will become happy. Too excited and being chased by an aunt, James drops the magic stuff next to the old peach tree that has never produced fruit, but the magic stuff fixes that. The peach tree produces an immense peach, big enough for James to crawl inside and meet the variety of insects who also benefited from the magic stuff, and they were waiting for put-upon James to arrive before using the peach for their great adventure.
    • 4/5
      One of the most "fun" reads I've experienced by this author. I never was bored by the story, and it wasn't pretentious as many children's books can be.I recall Mrs. Hotkowski reading this book to us in second grade, but didn't remember anything about the plot, so it was as good as a new read to me.
    • 5/5
      I absolutely loved this book. It follows the story of a young boy named James as he goes through life after losing his parents and finds a place to call home. This book is good to show students that no matter what there will always be a place where they are loved and they are never alone. And also the importance of independence and perseverance.
    • 4/5
      Re-visiting a bit of my childhood. I haven’t read this book in years, but I thought it would be nice to introduce it to my seven year old daughter. It’s still funny just like I remember it and it was great seeing my daughters reaction to it. A great book. Has stood the test of time.
    • 4/5
      Silly, silly, silly....& FUN, FUN, FUN!!!! Orphan James unexpectedly finds himself on a magical adventure relieving him of his dreadful existence with 2 awful aunts and allowing him to start a whole new life. Brilliant little children's book that makes young James the hero.....lots of cleverness ensues, mostly the result of James as he and his unlikely travel mates conquer their fears through teamwork, respect for differences and just plain fun. Dahl is truly unique.....there is always a touch of dark over in the corner....it does not dominate, but it is always there. Totally enjoyed this!
    • 4/5
      I'd never read this one before and enjoyed it well enough on audio. It has Dahl's signature absurdity and sense of both the fun and the slightly gruesome. There wasn't *quite* enough story for me to be fully engaged, but Rhind-Tutt did a good enough job reading it and doing voices that I mostly didn't mind that. Note that there's some period-typical unpleasantness like fat-shaming and other body-negativity and some throw-away racialized comments that are distasteful, at best, today.
    • 3/5
      A great classic.
    • 4/5
      I remember liking the movie when I was young. Watching it as an adult, I actually hate it. The character design is gross and makes me uncomfortable.

      The book on the other hand. Love that. It's cute and funny and entertaining. I like the worm best.
      With all these remakes coming out, I think this one needs a second chance.
    • 3/5
      It's a cute book. Being Dahl, it's quirky and at times a little nasty in a funny way. It hasn't aged too well, however, not necessarily it's own fault but it's a book that not everyone might be pleased with in the current world.(Iffy content spoilers)The two aunts are crushed to death by the peach, and while not actually visualized it is a definite death. It is made light of later with a funny song from one character, and as horrible people they deserved it, but it's something that might not with well with all children. The book also has a scene where New York is panicking under the believe of a super huge bomb send from another country. It's absurd, but it also might be a topic that is sensitive post 9/11.If those concerns aren't a problem, then it's an easy read about a friendless and abused boy's fantastical voyage away from his miserable home to a new one where he can be happy. It is, in a phrase, the American dream.
    • 3/5
      James has sad life and is abused by the aunts he must live with. Then he has an adventure in a giant peach (which also deals with the nasty aunts) in this whimsical fantasy.
    • 5/5
      I read this very carefully and I don't believe a word of it.
    • 5/5
      James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl is a sweet, fictitious tale of a boy and the adventure he takes to escape his abusive aunts. He is confined to the hellish hill Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker have sucked him into, without a single playmate, toy, or game in sight. He is beaten for minor offenses or traits the ghouls deem offensive; his belly aches and grumbles constantly; and perhaps worst of all, with his parents’ death, he lost every other good thing he had ever known.Despite his diabolical conditions, James remains hopeful. Past the gates of his imprisonment, he gazes at a soft beach; the one place he can see and remember the feeling of contentment. He dreams of the lions that guard the library down among the city blocks. He carries his current circumstances like a package that will one day be dropped off, and he continues to keep his chin up as often as a child possibly can… With the occasional good cry, if he needs one.One day, a strange man with knowledge akin to the terrifying truth that lies within folklore approaches James and offers him a gift that will forever change his life: a bag of glowing, green worms. The instructions he gives James are detailed and difficult for a child to follow, which is something I find to be quite intentional. James gladly accepts, knowing that this may be the opportunity he has been praying for, and runs off as quickly and quietly as possible.He drops the bag; the worms wriggle out; down, down, down into the dirt they squirm…Defeated and distraught, James slumps back to his room, and sleeps fitfully. He awakes to find a peach on a willful tree branch, which had previously refused to treat anyone around it with a tiny blossom. It grows into a heap that his aunts profit off of, but James finds a secret within the house-sized piece of fruit…James meets giant bugs, each blessed by the lucky worms he had dropped, and travels across the sea beside them, becoming the confident leader he was destined to be. Trials await the company of peach-goers, and incredible actions are needed to overcome them. A boy who feared being locked away forever is released and his true potential is reached.I highly recommend this book to readers of all ages, and doubly recommend it to those who have decided it is geared to a much younger audience. Everyone can take a bite of wisdom from this masterpiece by Roald Dahl.
    • 5/5
      We are becoming fans of Julian Rhind-Tutt, he of the fabulous name and of great audiobook narration. We also listened to - and loved - his reading of Terry Pratchett’s The Witch’s Vacuum Cleaner and Other Stories. My kids are especially tickled by his voice for Earthworm in James and the Giant Peach, a book we had already read together but which we love hearing on audiobook.
    • 3/5
      This is the adventure of a very unhappy little boy that finds himself in a giant peach surrounded by some magical new friends. This was one of the first chapter books that I've read to my 4yo and she really enjoyed it! We are going to watch the movie next.
    • 4/5
      I'm not a Dahl fan by any stretch of any imagination, but this was a pretty good one. It's not as ridiculous as his other works.
    • 4/5
      Great story of childish adventure. One of Dahl's best. Highly recommend this to children of all ages.
    • 5/5
      Great fun!
    • 4/5
      I read this as a kid, or had it read to me, and all these years later I remember the scene where James crawls into the peach for the first time. I can still remember how I thought the peach would taste. There's a fairy-tale quality to the whole thing with some amazing flights of imagination. A little light on the story, I can see as an adult, but one can't have everything, can one.
    • 5/5
      I gave this a 5 out of 5 rating mainly for the narration by Jeremy Irons. Holy hell. He could narrate a phone book and I would line up to buy it. His voice is smooth as peanut butter. As beautiful as a willow tree. As exciting as a festival. It's everything I've ever wanted in a narrator. I want him to whisper sweet nothings in my ear. Jeremy Irons took an already fun and inventive children's book and made it even better. I apologize that this review is more about Jeremy Irons than the book, but his voice is damn distracting. Good book, even better narrator.
    • 4/5
      James is a lonely orphaned boy who lives with his cruel aunts at the top of desolate hill with no friends or other children in sight. One day a strange man appears on the edge of the property and offers Henry a paper sack full of magical green things, which will give the recipient power. In his excitement, James drops the bag and the magic goes into a peach tree, which grows a giant peach populated with gigantic insects. James and his new-found insect friends go on adventure after adventure when the peach rolls down the hill and takes them across treacherous and exciting routes.I decided to pick this book for two reasons:1) I was hosting a 1960s themed party and wanted to have books from the sixties for the kids at the party to read if they felt so inclined.2) Although I've seen both Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movies as well as Matilda, I've never actually read any Roald Dahl's books in their entirety, just one pop-up book adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. So I thought it was past time to finally read one.This book was humorous and full of adventure and is definitely a quick, light read as a result. There are some things in the book that I feel wouldn't be considered as acceptable for children's literature if this were written today -- such as a young boy accepting magic pills from a strange man lurking in the shadows and lots of adult deaths treated rather flippantly -- but it's not overwhelmingly inappropriate. Likewise, I'd expect a book written in the 60s by a man to have a lot of issues regarding gender and while there's a few traditional gender roles depicted here and there (e.g., the Cloud Men go off to work on the weather while the Cloud Women stay home and cook the men dinner), the book actually does a decent job of splitting the main characters evenly between male and female without the female characters being stereotypes (i.e., James has four female insect friends and three male insect friends, with all the insects being helpful in sticky situations by using their unique talents). One of the things that I personally had a tiny gripe with as an adult reader is that the book is of course a fantasy - hello, magical green things, peaches large enough to break down fences, talking insects, Cloud Men, etc. - but there were times when Dahl threw in some actual factual information, particularly regarding the insects and their various features and abilities. Maybe I'm mistaken, but I felt like young children could come away from this book confused about what's real and what isn't. Hopefully, I'm wrong and kids would be able to easily distinguish the wildly fantastic from the everyday, but they might need a parent who reads this along with them (either aloud or in parallel) to help them make those distinctions.The edition I had was a re-release from the 1990s featuring illustrations by Lane Smith. These were a nice addition that add to the book by giving kids a view visuals to work with while reading along. The black-and-white illustrations are minimalistic but animated enough to add a dash of extra fun to the story.
    • 5/5
      Delightful! Highly recommend the audio version! Simply fantastic.
    • 4/5
      Genre: fantasyRoald Dahl is a quite the author. This book is about a four year old whose parents are killed and then he goes to live with his two aunts. After three years he embarks on the adventure to New York City after a magical potion given to him by an old man spills on a peach seed and creates the marvelous and famous giant peach. Although the story ends happily it is difficult book for some students to read. It includes mistreatment, abuse, and pretty horrifying realities of a very young boy that is fairly alone in the world. I would say this book reflects a good amount of Roald Dahl's style of writing and character he places through his writings.
    • 3/5
      I had mixed feelings about this book. One reason I liked this book was because of Roald Dahl's word choice. James and the Giant Peach was very comical and extremely thrilling. I was intrigued the entire time during the story. James' parents were killed and he was sent to live with his two mean aunts. He becomes very sad until he meets a man who gives him seeds. James trips and the seeds go everywhere in the ground. He then grows a giant peach in the backyard. As I read the very descriptive words, I could visualize the events happening clearly. I could imagine James and the creatures inside of the peach taking an adventure and as they experience very odd pitstops along the way. One reason why I did not like this book was because of the content and storyline. Although I enjoyed the word choice, I have a better grip on reality than a 6 or 8 year old. Young children have the tendency of getting real life examples and "made-up" examples confused. Roald Dahl also tends to write about poverty or low income and struggles. Those topics may be very hard to grasp for young children. However, that is what makes this book so conflicting for me because those topics may be good for children to become aware of. The main message of this book is to realize where you came from and where you want to go in life. Life has its struggles and that is okay, but its what you do with them that really matters. Roald Dahl also makes many religious references as well.
    • 4/5
      Young orphan James Henry Trotter lives with his mean spinster aunts, Sponge and Spiker. His aunts keep James busy doing chores and never give him time to play either by himself or with other children. One day, James is given some magic crystals with a promise that they'll change his life, but he loses them on the ground before he can follow the instructions he's been given. Imagine his surprise when a tree in the garden where he spilled the crystals grows an enormous peach! James explores the inside of the peach and meets several creatures, including a centipede, and earthworm, a grasshopper, a silkworm, and a spider. The peach rolls away with James inside it, launching James and his companions on a big adventure.I would have enjoyed this book more if I had discovered it as a child. As an adult reader, I'm too aware of the educational aspects of the story, such as facts about the insects that James meets inside the peach. I also couldn't help being concerned about James's willingness to accept the crystals from a complete stranger, and that he would have followed the stranger's instructions to make a drink from the crystals if he hadn't accidentally dropped them in the garden.James's ingenuity and the way the traveling companions work together to get themselves out of difficult circumstances provide positive messages for children about problem solving and team work. This is a great story for early readers to read on their own. The audio version read by Julian Rhind-Tutt is also enjoyable, with a variety of vocal characterizations and sound effects that enhance the story.
    • 4/5
      James and The Giant Peach is a wonderful modern fantasy. Between the descriptive language and the exciting, suspenseful plot, this story is sure to capture the imagination of the reader. The plot begins with James loosing his parents and is forced to live with his devilish aunts, Aunt Spiker and aunt Sponge. All hope for James seems to be lost until he stumbles upon an old man with magical green, crystals that move as if they are alive. James acquires these magical crystals but stumbles and looses them underneath a peach tree just outside his Aunt's house. James is overcome by what he finds growing upon the peach tree, a peach the size of a house! This story tells of James' journey inside this magical peach that is described with vivid detail of a peach glistening in the night sky, gleaming with a silver hue as the dew drops of the night turn the peach in to a magical portal in to a journey far better than James' horrific past life with his newly acquired aunts. James' eyes meet a cast of new but ever-so frightening set of insects that greet James like long lost friends that he could once remember having before he was sent to live with his aunts. James and his newly acquired friends set off on a journey inside the peach anywhere but within close proximity to the mean clutches of James' aunts. The journey is riddled with many obstacles as the peach floats across the ocean on top of several hungry sharks. Suspense builds as the insects rely on James to devise many plans to overcome these obstacles. James and the Giant Peach is a wonderful book that keeps the reader on pins and needles as James and his new friends try desperately to escape Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge.
    • 3/5
      Our 4th grade teacher read this to us. Shortly after that I read it on my own. My mother had ordered it from a book club. The story was disquieting for me. So often Dahl creates characters who are absurdly vicious. They were to vicious to believe in.
    • 2/5
      Not my favorite Dahl book, this one is more of a fable than anything else, given the implausible behavior of the characters.

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