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2004
(first published 1987)
by Editorial Planeta
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Paperback, 144 pages
isbn
9681910125
(isbn13: 9789681910129)
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A giant kidnaps Sophie from the orphanage. Luckily for Sophie, he is far more friendly than his disgusting neighbors, whose favorite pastime is guzzli...more
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Read in June, 2008
Like many others, I remember the Roald Dahl books that I read, or had read to me, during my childhood fondly, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and especially, Matilda. Perhaps because I expected to have the same childhood reading adventure as I had with those books, I liked, but did not love, The BFG. I think that Dahl's idea for the story is a creative one, but little things, such as the puns on the names of countries when the...more
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Read in April, 2008
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in a sentence: sophie, a little girl on the top floor of an icky orphanage, is awake during the witching hour and knows something is up...and then she meets a big, friendly, giant! let the adventure begin!
oh man, i absolutely love this book. it just makes me feel like snuggling up under a blanket and cozying with a teddy bear. sophie is scooped up by the BFG (big friendly giant) while he is doing some very suspicious things - blowing some liquid into people ears? after being gently carried t...more
oh man, i absolutely love this book. it just makes me feel like snuggling up under a blanket and cozying with a teddy bear. sophie is scooped up by the BFG (big friendly giant) while he is doing some very suspicious things - blowing some liquid into people ears? after being gently carried t...more
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I first found this book in about 2nd grade at my school Library. I borrowed it since I'd read most of Roald Dahl's other children's books and had my dad read it to me. Let me point out that my father is the best story-teller/reader. He does voices for everyone and he has this great English accent that is perfect for Roald Dahl books. I fell in love with the simple giant who has deep insights, the wonderful adventures, the dream collecting, the possibility of little girls doing great things, and...more
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Read in June, 2008
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Mrs. Hirschberg, ca. 1991recommends it for: those in touch with their inner child
I loved this book when I re-read it about a month ago just as much as I loved it when my third-grade teacher read it aloud to my class seventeen years ago. The Big Friendly Giant himself is charming, and I have always loved the cameo appearance of a certain very famous Brit. (I would love to know this person's opinion of the story, too - I personally would be delighted in their shoes.)
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Read in April, 2008
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Hannah the banana nut muffinrecommends it for: kids ages 8-12 and their parents!
I kept hearing my daughter bursting out laughing as we lay next to each other reading at bedtime, so after she was done with this book I grabbed it to read. It was hilarious. I read Roald Dahl books as a kid and had forgotten how whimsical and unique his books are. You can read it in a night or 2 if you need a break from your regular reading!
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Read in February, 2008
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It was an absotlute great book! I thought it was a great story about giants. I read it almost every sec. of the day! I read it around the time I read Where the Red fern Grows. Most of the books I've read are amazing.
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Read in January, 2005
If you like to read aloud to your kids, I can't think of a better book, although several other Roald Dahl books may be close. The kids loved it, the parents loved it and it is easy to include fun character voices.
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Read in October, 2008
I have to suppress the urge to begin reading this aloud, even to myself! What a great read aloud book! Such incredibly funny, nonsensical words with an endearing giant for a main character.
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Read in March, 2006
This book is very funny and i recommend it
to anyone that likes fantasy and adventure
to anyone that likes fantasy and adventure
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Read in November, 2008
"the BFG" was always my favorite roald dahl book (i figure most people my age have a special favorite, since we grew up with them in the 80's)-- so i couldn't resist when i saw it in a used bookstore a couple months ago for $1. i found it made delightful bedtime reading, just a couple pages every once in a while when i was feeling particularly stressed out or icky. this book is such a lovely fantasy. i remember very vividly my mental images of it from when i was a kid, so it was great ...more
Read in November, 2008
The book BFG was written by non other than the faboulus childrens writer Roald Dahl, and illustrared by Quentin Blake. Its about a little girl named Sophie who lived in an orphanage,but one day a giant called the BFG (big friendly giant) kiddnapped her because she saw him. The BFG took Sophie back to his home in Giant Country where he hid her so non of the other giants would eat her. The giant takes Sophie to dream country and tells her about his job of giving dreams to kids is his job. ...more
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This is a book about a giant and a little girl. The giant is not really mean like all the other giants. Well the other giants are really mean because they eat children!! Yea sounds pretty mean huh?? Well the nice friendly giant does not eat children at all. He has to eat these terrible snozzcumbers wich taste horrible. He has no choice to eat those horrible things because he doesn't want to hurt the children. The big friendly giant gives dreams at night. When nobody can see him. He sneeks throug...more
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Read in July, 2004
The BFG, the Big Friendly Giant, is wandering around the streets at night, to bring dreams to the kids. Doing that he meets Sophie, who one night cannot sleep and thus is standing at her window and watches the Giant. Because Sophie has seen way too much, the Giant has to take her with him. Of course Sophie is afraid of this huge creature, but befriends him quite quickly - after all, he is the BFG. Together they develop a plan how to fight the real bad giants.
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The book is mostly about this giant takes a girl away because he saw something in certain people's houses. He also takes her away to see if he can help him with the promblems that he has with the other giants. One in the beginning comes because he heres him talking to somebody and he can't seem to find out who it is. He introduces hmself to her also. Then she introduces herself to him. The reason why the giant that has taken the girl away can't let the other giants know is beacuse they eat peopl...more
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The bfg (big friendly giant) by Roald Dahl this book takes place in a magical land the problem is that if a giant see you it will it eat you but the bfg didn’t want to eat the little girl because he isn’t like that he isn’t like the other giants so he took her in stead of eating her but it was a little difficult he had to hide her from all the other giants because if they saw her they would eat her. There are two main characters one of them is Suzy she is the girl that gets kid -n...more
Ths book is about a little girl called Sophie. Once opun a warm night she got kidnapped by the big friendly giant!As he tells her why he did such a thing Sophie discovers a few things she never dreamed of!!!!
Outside the house of the BFG there are nine more giants ,human eating giants!Roald Dahl wrote that the ywere big ,sixteen meter high ,and they were half naked!They only wore a little peace of fur arround their .....
well,Sophie and the BFG decided that they had to do something or s...more
Outside the house of the BFG there are nine more giants ,human eating giants!Roald Dahl wrote that the ywere big ,sixteen meter high ,and they were half naked!They only wore a little peace of fur arround their .....
well,Sophie and the BFG decided that they had to do something or s...more
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Read in July, 2008
I just finished reading this to the kids. It was was filled with too strange of words and concepts were a little too big for the 3 year old. However, she sat still and listened. The 5 year old followed the main themes and could report back to me what happened, too. So she "got it" even if she couldn't have had the same appreciation for whizzpoppers as an older child would have.
Not a bad book for kids. A little scary, perhaps with the 50 foot giants that eat little kids...more
Not a bad book for kids. A little scary, perhaps with the 50 foot giants that eat little kids...more
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This book is one of the funnist book I have ever read! Sohpie, an orphan trapped inside a gross orphanage run by mean people, sees a giant blowing something into the windows of houses. Then the ginat snaches her away! Let the adventure begin! I absolutely loved this book! It was great.
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