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India Press Store - The BFG
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List Price: $8.69
Our Price: $4.61
Your Save: $ 4.08 ( 47% )
Availability: Usually ships in 7 to 12 days
Manufacturer: Puffin Books
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780141322629
ISBN: 0141322624
Label: Puffin Books
Manufacturer: Puffin Books
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2007-09-06
Publisher: Puffin Books
Studio: Puffin Books
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Delightful! CAUTION: not for the little ones (too scary)
Comment: Hard to believe I missed this delightful book as a child. I adored Dahl, and read much of him, but I'd never heard of this until my wife brought it home one day. You and/or your child will also enjoy this funny and touching adventure about a kindly giant.
However, I would caution you that the book is about people-eating giants who snatch children from their beds in the night. They are beastly things who eat little children and have horrifying names. It's scary stuff! Perhaps not best to read aloud to little ones!
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Summary: Awesome Book
Comment: I have always loved Roald Dahl's amazing stories, and this one was just as good as his others. I love the typical Dahlian nonsensical words that aren't fully nonsensical (my favorites being `babblement' and `catasterous disastrophe'). The book is written in a very child-friendly way, but can be enjoyed by all ages. Another particular part I liked was the theory about age, that humans are technically only half their given age, since half of our lives are pretty much slept away. It makes perfect sense to me! I highly enjoyed the insertion of Jack and the Beanstalk into the story, and really the whole societal structure of the giants. I'm pretty sure this is the first book we've read in this class that I've actually enjoyed the ending and thought it all turned out very well. I love how Dahl ties it all up with the BFG actually being the one telling the story, taking on the name of Roald Dahl from Dahl's Chickens (Charles Dickens). Adorable real-world tie-in. I suppose the only complain I have is that Sophie was somewhat a 2-D character, although this would allow a child reading the book to identify with her more.
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Summary: complete classical nonsense
Comment: This has Dahl written all over, it is makes you want to laugh at the sheer nonsense of it gasp at the huge outrageousness of and cry at how Sophie finds a home at last with her friend the BFG
one of Dahl's best
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Summary: The Giant
Comment: The BFG is a about a girl that gets taken away by a big friendly giant from the orphanage. She gets taken to a dried up magical land and has to hide or another giant will eat her flesh!
I like this book because it is adventurous. You never know if a giant is standing behind you about an inch away from eating your flesh! SCARY! This book is so great, that I will never stop reading it until I am eighty! (Just so you know I am only eight and a half).
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Summary: Favourite quick read.
Comment: Well, this book was first read to me when I was 5, I am now 20 and it has never been surpassed as my No. 1 favourite book, especially if I want a quick read and a good laugh.
I would recomend this book to all ages, even those who are young, as the eating of Human Beans is for a weird reason, not very prominent in the forefront of your mind. One might suppose this would be because none of the eaten childers are named or introduced in the book. It all happens elsewhere, and does not happen anywhere that the story is actually happening, (childers do get eaten in England, which is where the story is set, but none that Sophie has ever meet).
All in all, a very good read and worth the money, however much you spend.
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Editorial Reviews:
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This is the well-loved story of a big friendly giant who spirits a child out of bed to the land of the child-eating giants. This edition has a great new cover by Quentin Blake as well as a whole new exciting end section about Roald Dahl and his world.
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