Who wrote the children’s story ‘James and the Giant Peach’?
James and the Giant Peach 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
James and the Giant Peach 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,