James and the Giant Peach

英会話の先生に薦められて購入しました。英語初心者で、British Englishを学びたい人には、とても良い教材だと思います。先生曰く、小学生低学年用の本だそうです。ストーリーはとても面白く、英語が苦手な私でも、読みたいと思います。また、ペーパーバックなので軽く、通勤中に読めます。

ロアルドダールは、自分の子供に言葉を教えるためにこの本を書いたのではないかと思われます。なぜなら、いろんな場面を描写するときに、実に沢山の言葉で書いているのです。例えば、激しい雨の様子を描写するのに、smashing sloshing slashing smashingなど10以上の言葉で書いているのです。英語の表現力を豊かにしたい方には、最適の本だと思います。

友人に頼まれて購入しました。梱包も文句なくよかったです。

My teacher read it to to me when I was in elementary school, and I had fond memories of it. I bought it to read to my own son, and that is what I have done. I love the spirit of adventure, and want to instill the same in my son. He loved the book. It's a great read, and a great romp. Read it to your children.

予定より早めの到着でした。 英語の勉強用に買いましたが、内容もちょうど良かったです。

娘がすごく面白いと言っていました。 学校のリーディングに使っています。 クラスでもこの本を読んでいる又は読んだ子が何人かいたようです。

「ジャックと豆の木」ならぬ「ジェイムズと桃の木」のお話。ロアルド様の頭の中はどうなっているのだろうと思ってしまう。 桃のエキスを吸い込んで虫たちが活躍してくれるなんて......

両親を亡くしたJamesは、意地悪で利己的なおばさん二人に引き取られ、惨めな暮らしをしていました。ある日、奇妙な老人に出会い、沢山の小さな緑色の粒をもらうのですが、それを庭にある桃の木の根元にこぼしてしまい… …その後、巨大な桃に乗って、人と同じサイズになった言葉を喋る虫たちと冒険することになるのですが、その虫たちのドタバタぶりがとても面白く、あっという間に読み終わってしまいました。 話の展開が突飛で面白いので、"Matilda"や"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"ほどではありませんが、大人でも楽しめると思います。お勧めです。

The book is a very nice average-size hardback edition. However, I was quite surprised to open it and see that the entire book has been printed with an orange ink. Or is a PEACH color they are aiming for? I mention this because it is just a bit more difficult on the eyes for reading, especially if your sight is impaired. Otherwise the book is great.

On ne va pas présenter Roald Dahl, je pense que chacun peut citer de ces titres. Ceci étant, ce classic, adapté au cinéma, est assez sympathique pour reprendre l'anglais en douceur. Le vocabulaire reste abordable. Parfait pour reprendre tranquillement les reflexes d'immersion sans se sentir dépassé par des années de non pratique de l'anglais.

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake is a great book if you want to be entertained, or are starting to read chapter books. This book, published in 1961, is one of the most famous books worldwide to this day. It is a fictional-fantasy story and has a child-friendly plot. I would say the book is good for anyone from 8 to 14 years old. James and the Giant Peach is a very descriptive book and makes it easy to imagine the scenes. This story starts off in London, England, in the countryside in James’s aunt’s house. Later on, James meets bugs inside the peach. The peach then ends up in the Atlantic Ocean and arrives in America. James is the protagonist. His friends are giant bugs named Old-Green-Grasshopper, Centipede, Earthworm, Spider, and Ladybug. Although these bugs can be impatient, they cooperate with James and are friendly to him. James is a curious orphan who was trapped with his cruel aunts for many years. One day, his aunts went to their garden and found an enormous peach on one of the trees. The aunts locked him outside of the house for some time as punishment, and that's when he spotted the giant peach. He examined the peach and found a big hole. Big enough for James to fit in it. He stepped into the hole and found the seed of the peach. The seed of the peach opened. James went inside where he met his future friends. Unfortunately, not after long, the peach started rolling, and rolling, and rolling. And that’s how his adventure begins. James and the Giant Peach is filled with descriptive scenes and vivid words like “hurtled” or “plunged” which makes the book fun to read. It is very easy to imagine and feels like you're in the story itself. This novel is similar to other Roald Dahl books such as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Both books are easy to picture and have fun words in them such as “scrumptious”, “delectable”, or “enraptured”. The common theme can be that karma comes around. Even though James was treated poorly by his aunts, he doesn’t become bitter or mean spirited. He still helped out the bugs. This shows that you can help out people and make friends even when it seems like you can’t. The theme of James and the Giant Peach relates to my life when I switched schools in fifth grade. I thought I wouldn’t be able to make friends or have fun. Soon someone did end up making friends with me, and then I had hope about making more friends. In just a little bit of time, I was having a lot of fun during recess and had many friends.

Absolutely love this book. Great large print. Nice and clean crisp pages. Bright colours on front and back cover. Highly recommend

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