Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Book Review- Chapter book

Chapter book for third to fifth graders, depending on their reading level. "James and the Giant Peach," by Roald Dahl. My brother loved this book as a kid. It's an A 1 book. The author has a very vivid imagination. He's also a great story teller. In this book Dahl's character James lives with his two mean aunts. They are horrible to the little boy. A little old man who knows James is miserable gives him a bag of magic crystals. James is to put the crystals in water and drink it down. An excited James runs to the house. He slips on the way there. The bag of crystals falls on the ground near a peach tree. All the crystals dissolve into its soil. Soon the peach tree starts growing bigger and bigger. It gets so big James is able to climb inside a hole in its side. And this where his adventures begins.