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michyms 's review for:
James and the Giant Peach
by Roald Dahl
It took at most five pages into the book, and I was hooked. I found myself giggling at how Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge tried to outdo each other, singing praises of how beautiful they thought they were.
When James arrived at the core of the Giant Peach (it deserves to be given a proper noun status, it is, afterall, a character by itself!), I fell in love with all the other characters at once. Quentin Blake is one great illustrator.
And the Cloud-Men! Just thinking about whispy things up on the clouds, throwing balls of cloud down at us as hailstones and snow, painting bridges with the seven colours of the rainbow. It just reminded me of how I used to pray and hope to see those things, when I was still little and made stories as to how rain appeared, or why there is thunder.
Lovely, lovely story.
When James arrived at the core of the Giant Peach (it deserves to be given a proper noun status, it is, afterall, a character by itself!), I fell in love with all the other characters at once. Quentin Blake is one great illustrator.
And the Cloud-Men! Just thinking about whispy things up on the clouds, throwing balls of cloud down at us as hailstones and snow, painting bridges with the seven colours of the rainbow. It just reminded me of how I used to pray and hope to see those things, when I was still little and made stories as to how rain appeared, or why there is thunder.
Lovely, lovely story.