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    Yr CMM
    Yr CMM
    Yr CMM
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    Yr CMM

    By Roald Dahl

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    A Welsh adaptation of The BFG, an amazing story by a very popular author about Sophie's best friend, the BFG, a kind giant who uses strange words; for 8-11 year-old readers. 72 black-and-white illustrations. New edition.
    LanguageCymraeg
    PublisherRily
    Release dateJan 28, 2013
    ISBN9781849675079
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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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    • 4/5
      Fun book. Just saw the movie and had to read this. Movie is mostly faithful.
    • 5/5
      This book is amazing! My favorite Roald Dahl book and one of my favorite books as a kid. Not sure what it was that I liked about it, but I loved it. I remember the evil giants scared me though as a kid, but the BFG is just one extremely likeable character you forget that evil giants exist in the book. I remember something about Queen Elisabeth in this book too and some other king. Since there making a movie of this (FINALLY!) I might have to reread this book again.
    • 4/5
      Sophie is an orphan who gets taken away one night by the Big Friendly Giant, aka BFG, to Giant Country after seeing him through her window. There, BFG tells Sophie all about the other giants who go off at night and eat humans (the BFG doesn't eat humans). After finding out they're planning on going back to her home country to eat a bunch of school children, Sophie finally convinces the BFG that enough is enough!

      I wish I would have read this book as a kid! I was giggling to myself at the names and words BFG would use. I know if I read this when I was younger I would have cracked up and rolled around in a fit! This is a funny, fast read. I can see everyone at least smiling at some of the words being said. It's just a bit silly to be honest.
    • 3/5
      A young orphan named Sophie, awake at the witching hour one night and looking out of the window of the orphanage where she lives, is seen by a passing giant, who scoops her up through the window and brings her back to his cave. Unlike the other eight giants in existence, who are truly terrible, the BFG - Big Friendly Giant - does not eat people. Rather, he captures dreams and doles them out to good children, while they are sleeping. Nightmares, he destroys. It is Sophie who suggests that the other giants, who abuse the BFG, should be imprisoned, and the two unlikely companions make their way to London, where they enlist the aid of the Queen...Originally published in 1982, The BFG was apparently dedicated to author Roald Dahl's daughter, Olivia, who died at the age of seven in 1962, of measles encephalitis. This is terribly poignant, and made me wonder what aspects of the story (if any) - perhaps the character of Sophie? the dream-catching? the giants? - made Dahl dedicate this to his long-dead daughter. Leaving that issue aside, I found this one quite enjoyable, when I read it for the course on the history of children's literature that I took, while getting my masters. Other than Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which I read as a young girl, I had never read any other books by Dahl, when I picked The BFG up. I was pleasantly surprised, as I'd found the humor in 'Charlie' sufficiently nasty, as a younger reader, that I'd never approached the author's work again. Here however, I thought the tone was gentler, more compassionate, less mocking. I appreciated the conversations between Sophie and the BFG, in which "this extraordinary giant was disturbing her ideas... leading her toward mysteries that were beyond her understanding."I won't go so far as to say I loved this one, or that it completely changed my view of Dahl, who has always seemed to me to have a rather nasty undertone to his books, but it was enjoyable, and gave me pause. The more rational adult reader in me (as opposed to the determinedly opinionated child) is constrained to admit that one or two books is an insufficient sample, to make any firm judgment on the author's work. I've long wanted to read Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox, perhaps I'll try that next?
    • 3/5
      The Big Friendly Giant works with a little girl to save children from being eaten!
    • 4/5
      I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right - The BFG

      I read this on the recommendation from my grandson, and my daughter, his mother, that I should really get to know Roald Dahl. I've never read his books. And I've only seen clips from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. So they lent me this book to get started!

      I really liked this silly romp through giant-land, with all its wonderful vocabulary words - gobblefunk (nonsense), the telly bunkum (television), swizzfiggling (make things up) and, of course, disgusterous. Suspend your disbelief at flying giants, dreams in jars and breakfast with the queen, and enjoy the story.
    • 4/5
      Sophie is captured late one night, as can happen when one can’t fall asleep. Luckily for her, the giant who took her is not like the rest of his kind, for he is kind and gentle (a little on the short side too, at nearly 24 feet). He doesn’t want to eat Sophie and doesn’t dine on children (or any “human beans”). The BFG, as he comes to be known, eats veggies and a fizzy drink which cause him to “whizzpop”. Although he is a giant, he has a heart of gold and enjoys giving kids pleasant dreams, which he stores and blows into their rooms while they are dozing. Sophie and the BFG become fast friends. When Sophie finds out that the other giants have a plan to devour lots of other children, she begs the BFG to help her save them. She has a plan, but it won’t work if she tries it alone. Will Sophie and the BFG be able to save the unsuspecting humans? Will the other giants find out what they are up to? Is it really possible for a giant and a human child to be friends? You will have to read this book to find out!

      I have read most of Roald Dahl’s books, and I enjoyed The BFG. The main characters are easy to relate to for different reasons. I appreciated the BFG's sensitivity and Sophie’s determination. I loved all of the fun made up words throughout the book. There are lots of quirky details, which I have come to expect from this author. I found myself laughing out loud as I pictured some of the scenes. I think this book would appeal to kids in third grade and up (younger kids would enjoy having it read to them). The BFG has a way of talking that can take some getting used to, but once you get the hang of it- his personality pops off the pages. I liked the themes in this book about good and evil, and that friendships can happen where we least expect them. This was another reminder that we shouldn’t judge books or people by their covers and that we should laugh often!
    • 5/5
      This is an all time favorite read for me! In Dahl's book readers get to experience adventure along with Sophie and the BFG through descriptive, engaging writing whether it's placing dreams into the Queen of England's head or imagining the awful stench of Snozzcumbers. The BFG character is incredibly well developed and Dahl does a great job at humanizing him. This is a great read for people of all ages, and would be great for entertaining school- age children! (Grades 2-3) The main themes of the book include friendship, justice and teamwork- even when your team is an unexpected pair.
    • 5/5
      While main characters engage in delightful conversation, learning about each other and their differences, the BFG contains some disturbing content for the youngest readers. (Spoiler Alert if you read on).From the book jacket you learn that Sophie (the main human character) is very fortunate to have met this particular giant (the Big Friendly Giant), because all the other giants feed on humans, especially children. The bulk of the book is an adventure where Sophie, who was captured by the BFG, must avoid detection by the other giants. But soon Sophie and the BFG embark on a quest to end the practice of "human bean" feasts. The book is a quick read, and the twists on language are quite amusing. But, be prepared to deal with the uncomfortable fact of the giants diet if you read this classic to youngsters.
    • 5/5
       I LOVED this little book! Roald Dahl is my new children's author hero. I listened to this book on audio and absolutely loved it. The narrator did a great job of making the characters come to life with all their voices. It was such a fun story and I really fell in love with it and the characters. Though definitely a children's book, I think any adult who loves the whimsical world of children's fantasy will appreciate this one.
    • 3/5
      This was a cute book. Some very valuable lessons throughout. I'm very excited to see the movie.
    • 5/5
      Lovely clever little book.
    • 4/5
      Eight-year-old Sophie is looking out the orphanage window during the 'witching hour' and espies a giant, who plucks her up and takes her back with him to 'giant country,' where he explains he is a Big Friendly Giant, but the other giants would eat her up if given the chance. When Sophie learns that the other giants are going out every night and gobbling up humans left and right, she is determined that she and the BFG must stop them. With a bit of help from the Queen of England, they might be able to end this gigantic reign of terror.I must confess that as a child, I never read any Roald Dahl books, which is a shame because I think I would have appreciated them so much back then. When The BFG film came out, a friend and I were hysterical over the main character's misspeaks and the situational humor in it, so I decided I should read the book at last. There are significant differences, but both the movie and the book are entertaining in their own right. The BFG himself is a very funny character as well as an endearing one, in spite of his early mistake in kidnapping Sophie.Despite an overall humorous tone, Dahl does tackle a couple of deep issues in the book as the BFG and Sophie talk about the other giants. She is indignant about their behavior in eating humans, but the BFG points out how humans eat other animals and how humans often murder one another, whereas the giants are just aiming for survival. Ultimately, this is just a small part of the book, but I like how it provides some food for thought.There are a few problematic mentions in the books of non-British nationalities/ethnicities (e.g., a couple of references to "Eskimos" and "Hottentots") as well as a couple of unnecessary gendered divides (e.g., the BFG organizes his dream collection into "girl dreams" and "boy dreams"). However, considering that the book was written by a person born in 1916, I can mostly overlook these. Parents or teachers might want to make note though and talk to their children about these issues and how these attitudes are regressive. David Williams is a talented and apt narrator for the audiobook, doing a great job of the BFG's garbled speak as well as creating a variety of distinct voices for all the characters that appear, even minor ones. This particular version features "special sound effects," which were a bit distracting, especially if you listen to this book while driving! I could see how the special effects were meant to be engaging for young listeners, and there were times they were spot on, such as including the whooshing sounds of the blades when the text described the helicopters in flight. However, there were other times when the sound effects didn't add much or frankly didn't make sense. For example, an early mention of a noise that was 'as loud as thunder' was followed by a thunder clap. But there wasn't actually thunder, just a thunderous sound!Overall, this is an imaginative and amusing read that children who like fantasy and/or magical realism will greatly enjoy.
    • 4/5
      Wonderful, fanciful story. Though I did most of the reading given the BFG's confusing speech.
    • 5/5
      It is the "witching hour" and Sophie, a young orphan, can't sleep. She spots a very large creature leaning into neighbor kids' windows with something that looks like a huge trumpet. The giant sees her and takes her to his home in Giant Country. The BFG (the Big Friendly Giant) is no ordinary bone-crunching, “human beans” eating giant. He secretly collects good dreams and uses a blowpipe to blow them into kids’ room. He either destroys nightmares or uses them to start fights between the giants who eat “human beans." Sophie convinces the BFG to talk to the Queen of England to capture the human-eating giants—and so the adventure begins. This is a wonderful, silly, inventive (particularly the language of the BFG) book for the young reader or for a family read. I listened to the audio version of this book and it was quite good— a great one for a family car trip. 41/2 out of 5 stars.
    • 5/5
      One night, Sophie accidentally sees the BFG (Big Friendly Giant). He kidnaps her from the orphanage where she lives and whisks her off to faraway giant land. BFG has to hide Sophie from the other giants, they eat human “beans” and would surely eat her if they found her. The two become great friends and he tells her of his work capturing dreams and delivering the good ones to children around the world. One day when the giants leave to go hunting human beans, Sophie and BFG devise a plan to capture the other giants and take them somewhere they will never be able to eat humans again. I saw the movie before reading the book this time and enjoyed it very much. In the movie, there is a scene where BFGs dreams get destroyed by the other giants and I am glad to say this is not in the book.
    • 5/5
      I think I forgot what happily ever after feels like. I enjoyed reading this book in one sitting. I love Roald Dahl. I wish I read this when I was little.
    • 3/5
      Largely "Meh." Like most of Dahl's work, it was a good idea poorly executed in my opinion.
    • 3/5
      Cute enough, but not a favorite for me
      I love how much my daughter loved it though. :)
    • 4/5
      Funny story, espescially when read out loud I think with all the ridiculous words the BFG is using. I am curious now about how translators managed so I'll have a look at the Dutch version for fun.
    • 4/5
      This is a cute story of two unlikely friends, a giant and an orphan. The book starts with Sophie in an orphanage and being taken in the middle of the night by the BFG. The go back to Giants land where no human is allowed to go or they will be eaten. The BFG hides her in his house and takes care of Sophie. The problem is the other Giants get the sence there is a human near by and go on a man hunt. I would use this story as a read aloud in class to introduce chapter books, and use picture to text reading strategies.
    • 2/5
      I tried to read this book to the children, some were, bored others were scared, some had already read it. It is the first book I didn't finish reading.
    • 4/5
      The BFG by Roald Dahl tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a little orphan, Sophie, and her uneducated abductor, the BFG. The central message of this book is one of friendship and courage: With a good friend, good ideas, and a healthy dose of courage, anything is possible. Throughout the book, Sophie learns to love and trust the Big Friendly Giant, and he loves her fiercely in return. The development of each character individually and as a team is the most powerful literary element of this book. The reader will feel empathetic for the BFG as he has been bullied his whole life by the other giants in the story who happen to be fearsome man-eating giants. When the two are not hiding from the horrid giants, they have moments of hilarity when they drink frobscottle which causes them to pass gas with such force, they fly through the sky like a balloon. Moments like these and other adventures though the book, seal their fate as friends forever. Together, they are able to use their friendship and trust in each other to defeat the man-eating giants and save the day. Note: This story does have elements of violence which will need to be discussed. Also, the giant speaks in a phonetic manner often making mistakes with his grammar and spelling which can be fun, but it can add difficulty.
    • 4/5
      Typical Roald Dahl -- just sweet enough but infused with salty wit and just enough preposterous humor to make the dark undercurrents all the better as leavening for what is, really, a charming and whimsical story. Mostly. Well worth the very quick read, even for cynical adults who may think that a book that features fart jokes in the presence of the Queen of England beneath them. If you think so, you are missing out on the good fun of _The BFG_!
    • 5/5
      A beautiful, magical read for children. I read this to my class when I was teaching and we did lots of activities around this warming story. I have just bought the movie tie in book to read to my grand-daughter and we will go to see it on the big screen. This is a warming story of a little orphan girl (Sophie) who witnesses the BFG blowing dreams into children’s' bedroom windows in the witching hour.The BFG snitches Sophie and takes her back to his cavern in a desolated desert that exists at the edge of the world in the two blank pages of the atlas. The BFG introduces himself as “I is a nice big jumbly giant.” The vocabulary is endearing and as you are reading the dialogue throughout the book you cannot help but feel like you are there alongside Sophie & the BFG. The story proceeds with Sophie & the BFG saving the children of the world from being gobbled up by 9 mean hungry giants who also live in this desert. Each night the 9 giants go off to parts of the world to gobble, guzzle chillin’s (children). Sophie & The BFG enlists the help of her majesty the Queen by bewitching her with a dream. A must read for every child – so magical, creative for the mind.
    • 4/5
      Very cute story. Can't wait for the movie to see it come to life. Sophie is an orphan and one night she notices a large shadow moving around and looking into windows. All of a sudden that shadow looks right at her and snatches her from her window. This is a story about Sophie and her Big Friendly Giant.
    • 5/5
      This is a charming story with plenty of imagination. Sophie the little orphan girl who wears big glasses. The Big Friendly Giant (BFG) who is nothing like the other giants. Two different characters who come together, form a friendship and solve a world wide problem. Dashing in long strides across the world from here to the Land of the Giants, speaking in a bit of a distorted style because of lack of schooling, capturing dreams to give to children . . . the BFG is a very unlikely hero. And so is Sophie, who shows herself to be quite brave and understanding. The two have quite and adventure, that is a good read.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed reading this story. I read this when I was a kid and enjoyed it then and liked it just as much reading it now. I liked it because of the conflict in the plot, descriptive language and the point of view. The girl was swept away and helped the BFG give out good dreams to children and fight off the bad and powerful giants. Throughout the story, there was descriptive language/ made up language using words like "gobblefunk" "buckswashling" and "hopscotchy." Using these words engages the reader and also makes the story funny to read. Readers can imagine the dialect of the Giants by the use of these words. The point of view is my favorite part of the story because at the end you find out that the BFG is writing stories about the adventures he has gone on and this is one of his stories. It changes the entire point of view that was once believed throughout the story. The message in this story is to not judge a book by its cover because Sophie was once terrified of the BFG because he was a giant but in reality he was just trying to help and do good for children.
    • 4/5
      This was another Roald Dahl book that was tons of fun to read. I loved the character of The BFG and how lovable he is. I really enjoyed the way that The BFG exposes how arbitrary many of how societal norms are. The BFG's sayings seem silly to Sofia, but her saying seem just as silly to him, which says something cross cultural understanding and the difficulties that this can bring about. I also really enjoyed the way that The BFG puts dreams into the minds of little kids while they were sleeping, this imagery was very fun. Overall, this was just a fun story that kept me smiling and laughing throughout.
    • 4/5
      When Sophie sees a giant wandering around during the witching hour, she can't believe her eyes! The BFG kidnaps her and takes her to the land of giants where she learns all kinds of things--including how to save others from the man-eating giants. This is a book that is great fun and there are rumors that it will be made into a movie in 2016. Read it before you see it!

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