James and the Giant Peach

146, [22] pp. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. Author's first children's book, inspiration for 1996 musical film. The plot centers on a young English orphan boy who enters a gigantic, magical peach, and has a wild and surreal cross-world adventure with a group of anthropomorphic insects he meets within the giant peach. Originally titled James and the Giant Cherry, Dahl changed it to James and the Giant Peach because a peach is 'prettier, bigger and squishier than a cherry.'"