{"product_id":"james-and-the-giant-peach-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-paperback","title":"James and the Giant Peach: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRoald Dahl\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAimee Bender\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eJordan Crane\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003c\/b\u003estunning 50th-anniversary deluxe edition of Roald Dahl's beloved \u003ci\u003eJames and the Giant Peach, \u003c\/i\u003efeaturing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--a new introduction by Aimee Bender, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--cover art by the award-winning cartoonist Jordan Crane\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--the original interior art from the 1961 first edition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--French flaps and deckle-edged paper \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames and the Giant Peach\u003c\/i\u003e is a perennial bestseller about a boy's magical journey across the sea, by one of the most beloved storytellers of our time. When James, a boy stuck living with his cantankerous aunts, is given magic crystals by a sympathetic wizard, he accidentally drops them at the foot of the peach tree outside his house, causing one of the fruits to grow the size of a house. Inside he finds oversized insects who promise him deliverance from his aunts, and soon the giant peach is rolling downhill, bound for the Atlantic Ocean and beyond on a magnificent adventure that will take James and his new friends far indeed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoald Dahl\u003c\/b\u003e (1916-1990) was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. He spent his childhood in England and, at age eighteen, went to work for the Shell Oil Company in Africa. When World War II broke out, he joined the Royal Air Force and became a fighter pilot. At the age of twenty-six he moved to Washington, D.C., and it was there he began to write. 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