James and the Giant Peach

Orphaned James Henry Trotter lives a miserable life with his cruel aunts Sponge and Spiker until a mysterious stranger gives him a bag of glowing crystals. When the crystals spill under an old peach tree, a peach swells to giant size. James crawls inside, meets a band of oversized insects, and the peach rolls away on a voyage across the ocean. Roald Dahl's 1961 children's novel, in this edition with Quentin Blake's drawings, mixes cruelty, comedy and wonder.

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Steven Spielberg: “I've read a lot of Dahl's work. I've read the standards to my kids: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach.”