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James and the Giant Peach

By: Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake
Narrated by: James Acaster
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Presenting a magical new reading of Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach, read by iconic British comedian James Acaster. This immersive audiobook is bursting with fantabulous sound effects, dynamic sound design, and original music composed by Rusty Bradshaw.

James Henry Trotter is about to go on the adventure of a lifetime . . .

James lives with his awful Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker, two of the meanest people you can imagine!

Life isn't much fun at all, until something peculiar happens at the bottom of his garden . . .

A peach at the very top of a tree begins to grow . . . and grow . . . and GROW! Inside are seven very unusual insects ­- all waiting to take James on a magical journey.

But where will this very special GIANT PEACH take James and his new friends? And what will happen to his horrible aunts if they stand in their way?

Listen to James and the Giant Peach and other fantastical Roald Dahl audiobooks, including:

George's Marvellous Medicine, read by Romesh Ranganathan.
Matilda, read by Kate Winslet.
The BFG, read by Mel Giedroyc.
The Twits, read by Richard Ayoade.
The Witches, read by Lolly Adefope.


©1961 The Roald Dahl Story Company Ltd (P)2022 Penguin Audio
Animals Classics Fiction Humourous Fiction Literature & Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Fantasy Funny

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Excellent narration and excellent book

Me and the kids really enjoyed this. Yes the narrator sounds different but he does a great job of it. Thank you.

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Nice amazing perfect great original creative entertaining how stupendous Spector best good adventurous crazy insane

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Listened to it in a day!

My 5 year old son loved this. We finished it in the day. Very well read!

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Good story to listen to

The reader did a very good as reading he was reading it will calm my mind

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Hard to listen

Really odd choice of narrator, might appeal to a very small subsection of the English opo

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Such an amazing book ruined by the reader.

My kids and I have listened to lots of the Roald Dahl audio books and we didn't even get 5 minutes into this one, couldn't stand the readers voice!

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