James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (book review)

This story is about a boy named James who was sent to live with his aunts because his parents had met with and accident. His aunts treated him very badly once he arrived and every day he was asked to do lots of things that children could not do. One peculiar day, James was doing work as usual, and his aunts were sitting down comfotably, drinking lemonade as it was a very hot day and talking about how pretty they were. James was thinking about how other children were so free to do what they liked like going down to the seashore to built sandcastles, splash in the water and do lots of other things he was not alowed to do. As he was thinking tears started to fall down his cheeks and he started crying and asking his aunts whether they could take the bus down to the seaside. His aunts said no and asked him to get out of their sight so, he ran and hid behind a bush. suddenly he heard a noise behind he and turned around and saw a old man taking out a small white plastic bag. He told James that inside that bag had one thousand crocodile tongues! And that he was to put all the crocodile tongues into a jug of water, add ten hairs from his head an drink it all down. After the old man had left, James ran as fast as he could to the kitchen to get a jug of water. Just as he reached the steps to the house, he tripped and fell flat on his face on the grass. The paper bag bust open and all one thousand crocodile tongues were scattered all over the grass James frantically started searching for his precious crystals but they all started burrowing into the ground out of sight. A while after James precious crystals had disserpeared into the ground, suddenly his

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