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James and the Giant Peach
James and the Giant Peach
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Carrie
Feb 24, 2016 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: willows, travel, aunts-and-uncles, read-aloud, read-my-shelves, library, adventure, humor, magical, animals
Yet another fantastic tale written by Mr. Roald Dahl
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Kim
Jun 28, 2018 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: audio-books
We listened to the audio version of this in the car with the kids during a long car ride. I also read it a long time ago when I was a kid, but only remembered a few details from that reading. I still found it to be very entertaining, although I could have done without the section about the "cloud people." My 7-year-old enjoyed it too, although I don't think it's going down as one of his favorites.

As a note about the audio version: this is not a good audiobook for a car ride. There were too many ...more
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