From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG! 

Roald Dahl was a champion of the underdog and all things little—in this case an orphaned boy oppressed by two nasty self-centered aunts. How James escapes his miserable life with the horrible aunts and becomes a hero is a Dahlicious fantasy of the highest order. You will never forget resourceful little James and his new family of magically overgrown insects—a ladybug a spider a grasshopper a glowworm a silkworm and the chronic complainer a centipede with a hundred gorgeous shoes. Their adventures aboard a luscious peach as large as a house take them across the Atlantic Ocean through waters infested with peach-eating sharks and skies inhabited by malevolent Cloudmen to a ticker-tape parade in New York City.

This happily ever after contemporary fairy tale is a twentieth-century classic that every child deserves to know. And Lane Smiths endearingly funny illustrations are a perfect match for the text.

All the gruesome imagery of old-fashioned fairy tales and a good measure of their breathtaking delight. —Kirkus Reviews

A stunning book to be cherished for its story a superb fantasy. —The Chicago Tribune

The most original fantasy that has been published in a long time...[it] may well become a classic. —San Francisco Chronicle