Welsh children's literature: Children's books by Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Children's books by Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, The Gremlins, The Twits, Tir na n-Og Award, The Witches, The BFG, Fantastic Mr Fox, Danny, the Champion of the World, Revolting Rhymes, George's Marvellous Medicine, Dirty Beasts, Esio Trot, The Minpins, The Enormous Crocodile, The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, The Magic Finger, The Vicar of Nibbleswicke, Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety. Excerpt: 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. However, there have been various 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 centers on a young English orphan boy who enters a gigantic, magical peach, and has a wild and surreal cross-world adventure with six anthropomorphic insects he meets within the giant peach. Originally titled James and the Giant Cherry, Dahl changed it to James and the Giant Peach because a peach is "prettier, bigger and squishier" than a cherry. Because of the story's occasional macabre and potentially frightening content, it has become a regular target of the censors and is no. 56 on the American Library Association's top 100 list of most frequently challenged books. James Henry Trotter, four years old, lives with his loving parents in a pretty and bright cottage by the sea in the south of England. James's world is turned upside down when, while on a shopping trip in London, his mother and father are devoured by a rhinoceros that had escap...