By: Jailyn, Kayla, William 5/18/10

1. By: Jailyn, Kayla, William 5/18/10

2. Summary • The main character, James has just lost his parents, they got eaten by an enormous angry rhino which escaped from the London zoo. Aunt Spiker is the tall skinny one and Aunt Sponge is the short FAT one. While James was cutting wood for his aunts, an old small man showed up and gave James green crocodile tongues. He said to swallow them. He tripped and the crocodile tongues started sinking into the ground. On the Peach tree that has never grown a peach and it grew a peach as big as a house. The next day James found himself locked in his room and his aunts were outside getting money from people to see the peach, in the night when his aunts unlocked his room he snuck out to touch the peach and when he touched it opened and he took a bite of it’s juicy insides. Soon he walked into a room full of huge insects, one said “Oh I am so hungry another insect agreed, soon James found himself friends with the insects they didn’t want to eat him. The Centipede said it’s time for bed So Miss. Spider started spinning hammocks. James found himself fast asleep. When he woke up everyone was up except he didn’t see the Centipede. Later he found the Centipede was chewing the Peach stem. The peach fell off the tree and rolled through the city. And through to the ocean after adventures through the ocean sky they ended up landing in NY and had a happily ever after.

3. Questions • What happened to James parents? • Which aunt is fat and which is skinny? • What are the things in the bag that the old man gives James? • What happens to James after he gets the crocodile tongues? • What did the peach on the peach tree do? • How big did the peach grow? • What did the aunts do to make money? • What did James find by the side of the peach? • What did the creatures want? • How many feet did the Centipede have?

4. Literary Luminary • Roald Dahl uses descriptive language like when he doesn't use grasshopper he uses Old-Green Grasshopper. • James looks more like 13 or 12 or 11 or 10 so he doesn’t describe how old he is in some books. • I like how he describes everything like James aunts and the peach. • I like how he acts out the conversations. • I like how the illustrator draws the characters to match there names. • I like how the wise man is wise because his head is big. • But I don’t understand that he used a peach for the book, not because of the title. • I wonder why they have a little house and when he said it was as big as their little house then the peach would be not as big. • Why did he use insects, oh I think I know why because the insects have to go in front I don’t think the green things are crocodile tongues I just think there little green balls. • I like how the main character always gets in danger. • Do you think personally without saying a peach looks like a bottom? • I like how Roald Dahl makes action books. • I like how he uses a lot of detail. • I like how he makes the drawing of his characters.

5. The End • We did hard work making this so We hope you enjoyed it Cause we enjoyed making it.

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