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事故で両親を亡くしたジェームズ・ヘンリー・トロッター少年は、スポンジおばさんとスパイキーおばさんという2人の意地悪なおばさんと一緒に暮らさなくてはならなくなった。3年が経つころには、「これほどかわいそうな少年はいない」ほどに。そんなある日、ジェームズは、深緑色のスーツを着た1人のおじいさんから、魔法の水晶玉の入った袋をもらう。それは、みじめなジェームズの生活を永遠に変えてしまうものだという。ところが、ジェームズはあやまって水晶玉を庭の枯れた桃の木にこぼしてしまう。しかし、これがジェームズの冒険の始まりだった。なんと枯れていた桃の木から1個の桃がぐんぐん成長し始めたのだ。やがてジェームズは巨大化した桃の中に入ると、意地悪なおばさんたちのもとを離れ、新しい世界へ出発する。ジェームズは元気な仲間と友だちになった。バッタにミミズ、クモのおねえさんにムカデ。みなそれぞれ自分の歌をもっている。
ロアルド・ダールの作品は想像力豊かで、登場するキャラクターたちもみな実にゆかいだ。読んで聞かせる親も飽きることはないし、子どもたちも何度も「読んで!」とせがんでくるだろう。本書をペーパーバック版として復刻するにあたっては、レーン・スミス(『The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairy Stupid Tales』や『The True Story of the Three Little Pigs』のイラストレーター)の手による白黒の鉛筆画が新たに書き加えられた。ディズニー社によるアニメ映画は、本書のイラストをもとに製作されている。これだけは断言できる――『James and the Giant Peach』(邦題『おばけ桃の冒険』)は児童文学の最高傑作だ。(9~12才児向け)
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内容説明
It's the 50th anniversary of James and the Giant Peach! Come celebrate and join James Trotter and his friendsÑGrasshopper, Earthworm, Miss Spider - on an adventure inside a giant magical peach.
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When poor James Henry Trotter loses his parents in a horrible rhinoceros accident, he is forced to live with his two wicked aunts, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. After three years he becomes "the saddest and loneliest boy you could find." Then one day, a wizened old man in a dark-green suit gives James a bag of magic crystals that promise to reverse his misery forever. When James accidentally spills the crystals on his aunts' withered peach tree, he sets the adventure in motion. From the old tree a single peach grows, and grows, and grows some more, until finally James climbs inside the giant fruit and rolls away from his despicable aunts to a whole new life. James befriends an assortment of hilarious characters, including Grasshopper, Earthworm, Miss Spider, and Centipede--each with his or her own song to sing. Roald Dahl's rich imagery and amusing characters ensure that parents will not tire of reading this classic aloud, which they will no doubt be called to do over and over again! With the addition of witty black and white pencil drawings by Lane Smith (of
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales and
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs fame), upon which the animation for the Disney movie was based, this classic, now in paperback, is bursting with renewed vigor. We'll just come right out and say it:
James and the Giant Peach is one of the finest children's books ever written. (Ages 9 to 12)
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From Publishers Weekly
Lane Smith trades stinky cheese for fantastic fruit with his black-and-white illustrations for Roald Dahl's classic 1961 novel, James and the Giant Peach. The reissue is timed to coincide with the release of the Disney animated motion picture based on Smith's suitably subversive visual interpretation.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Book Description
"Marvelous things will start happening to you -- fabulous, unbelievable things..."
When young, miserable James Henry Trotter accidentally draps the magic crystals he recived from an old man, strange things do start happening.Atop the old peach tree where a blossom has never even sprouted, a peach begins to grow, and grow, and grow. James crawls inside and meets a bizarre group of human-sized companions -- including Earthworm, Ladybug, and Centipede. Soon James' nasty Aunt Sponge and Anut Spiker are miles away as he rolls off on a fantistic, wiled adventure with his new friends.
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From the Publisher
"The most original fantasy that has been published in a long time...[it] may well become a classic."
San Francisco Chronicle"This is a stunning book, to be cherished for its story, a superb fantasy."
Chicago Sunday Tribune
"Here is a broad fantasy with all the gruesome imagery of old-fashioned fairy tales and a good measure of their breathtaking delight."
Kirkus
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From the Back Cover
"This newly-illustrated edition of an avowed children's favorite has all the makings of a classic match-up: Milne had Shepard, Carroll had Tenniel, and now Dahl has Smith...author and illustrator were made for each other, and it's of little consequence that it took almost 35 years for them to meet" --
Kirkus.
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著者について
Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after "a monumental bash on the head", sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990. Quentin Blake is one of the UK's most celebrated artists, renowned for his collaboration with Roald Dahl. He is visiting Professor at the Royal College of Art and lives in London.
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