roald dahl wrote the book james and the giant peach.
roald dahl wrote the book james and the giant peach.
who wrote the book james and the giant peach?
roald dahl
james and the giant peach (musical)









































james and the giant peach is a musical with music and lyrics by benj pasek and justin paul and book by timothy allen mcdonald based on roald dahl's children's book of the same name.
james and the giant peach (musical)
"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, it rolls through a "famous chocolate factory": a reference to willy wonka's chocolate factory. towards the end of the book, people in new york city identify the protagonists, incorrectly, as whangdoodles, snozzwangers, hornswogglers, or vermicious knids. all of those animals (except the last) are mentioned by willy wonka as predators of the oompa-loompas; and vermicious knids appear in the sequel book, "charlie and the great glass elevator", when they try to link up with the space hotel u.s.a. it also references "the bfg" in the end of the novel: on the last page, james writes a recount of his adventure (the illustration shows him smiling with a book in his hands). this is also how the bfg ended. in both cases, the recounted stories are purported to be the books themselves.
james and the giant peach