who wrote the book james and the giant peach
Roald Dahl
title: James and the Giant Peach text: James and the Giant Peach James and the Giant Peach is a popular children's novel written in 1961 by British author Roald Dahl. The original 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 for the first British edition, Emma Chichester Clark, Lane Smith and Quentin Blake. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1996. 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 title: James and the Giant Peach text: seven magically-altered garden bugs he meets. They set off on a journey to escape from James' two mean and cruel aunts. 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. The actors Jeremy Irons, Andrew Sachs, and Julian Rhind-Tutt provide the English language audiobook recordings. Four-year-old James Henry Trotter lives with his loving parents in a beautiful cottage by the title: James and the Giant Peach text: the project due to him entering talks with Disney about directing a live-action film adaptation of "Pinocchio". The book was made into a musical with music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and book by Timothy Allen McDonald that premiered at Goodspeed Musicals in 2010 and is currently frequently produced in regional and youth theatre. James and the Giant Peach James and the Giant Peach is a popular children's novel written in 1961 by British author Roald Dahl. The original first edition published by Alfred Knopf featured illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. There have been reillustrated versions of title: James and the Giant Peach text: and explained the story the people announced James and his friends as heroes. The remains of the giant peach are brought down to the street, where it is consumed by the town's children, and its seeds are provided to Central Park, where James now lives. His friends establish careers in the human world. In the conclusion, James is said to have written the preceding story. "James and the Giant Peach" possibly references "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" in the beginning and end of the novel (although its copyright date is three years earlier). When the peach rolls off the tree, title: James and the Giant Peach (film) text: James and the Giant Peach (film) James and the Giant Peach is a 1996 British-American musical fantasy film directed by Henry Selick, based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. It was produced by Tim Burton and Denise Di Novi, and starred Paul Terry as James. The film is a combination of live action and stop-motion animation. Co-stars Joanna Lumley and Miriam Margolyes played James's aunts in the live-action segments, and Simon Callow, Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, Jane Leeves, David Thewlis, and Margolyes voiced his insect friends in the animation sequences. James Henry Trotter is a