The BFG

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She was wrong, not that giants don’t eat kids it’s just that this giant doesn’t eat kids or humans in general. There at the window, with the curtains pushed aside, was the enormous long pale wrinkly face of the Giant Person, staring in. Sophie was terrified that the giant was going to eat her but the BFG turned out to be a diffrent kind of giant. There’s just something captivating about the story, about how a mystical creature could appear in your bedroom in the middle of the night and take you to another world (a more exciting world. The BFG then explains that he eats the only edible plant that will grow in the giants' homeland: snozzcumbers, which are disgusting striped cucumber-like vegetables with wart-like growths that taste like frog skins and rotten fish to Sophie and cockroaches and slime wanglers to the BFG.

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Despite Roald Dahl having enjoined his publishers not to "so much as change a single comma in one of my books", in February 2023 Puffin Books, a division of Penguin Books, announced it would be re-writing portions of many of Dahl's children's novels, changing the language to, in the publisher's words, "ensure that it can continue to be enjoyed by all today. Look at the original illustrations for the first edition of the book on Bidnessetc In the BFG, one of the giants, the Fleshlumpeater is supposed a black character, certainly another of them likes eating Turkish people. The giant laughs, and explains that most giants do eat human beings, and that the people’s origins affect their taste. It actually amazes me rereading the novel now just how much of the action involves simply an on running dialogue between Sophie and The BFG, ranging on subjects from the constitution of dreams, to the number of amazing noises The BFG can hear with his giant ears, to a rather stark discussion of the ethics of the other giants eating of humans when contrasted against the way we treat our own species. You've probably read all these books several times already, but you can never get tired of these individual pieces of magic.Singh, Anita (7 August 2010) "Roald Dahl's secret notebook reveals heartbreak over daughter's death".

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The well-loved story of a big friendly giant who spirits a child out of bed to the land of the child-eating giants. Roald Dahl Books Get New Edits—And Critics Cry Censorship: The Controversy Surrounding 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' And More". The giant laughs and explains that most giants do eat human beings (which he pronounces as "human beans"), and that the people's origins affect their taste.The sun was up now and shining fiery-hot over the great yellow wasteland with its blue rocks and dead trees. Even if you said you had to go to the lavatory, that was not accepted as an excuse and they punished you just the same. he spluttered, speaking with his mouth full and spraying large pieces of snozzcumber like bullets in Sophie's direction. The ludicrousness of the ending with the Queen was probably secondary to the nonsense words, although my daughter seemed to like it enough that every time I suggested we pack in in and give it back to the library she begged to carry on. As soon as he was inside, he stopped and turned and rolled the great stone back into place so that the entrance to his secret cave was completely hidden from outside.