| Interest Level Reading Level Word Count | Grades 4 – 8 Grades 4 – 6 23843 |
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How many words are in Roald Dahl's books?
Lewis – 38,421 words (source) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl –
30,644 words
(source) Animal Farm by George Orwell – 29,966 words (source)
How long does it take to read James and the Giant Peach?
The average reader will spend
1 hours and 34 minutes
reading this book at 250 WPM (words per minute).
How many words are in the BFG?
| ATOS Book Level: 4.8 | Word Count: 37568 | Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction |
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How big is the peach in James and the Giant Peach?
James and the Giant Peach. Credit: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. At the time of the book's publication, the antenna measured at 222 feet (it was shortened when replaced in 1985), putting the peach's height at
approximately 74 feet
.
Why is James and the Giant Peach a banned book?
In 1986, a WI town banned this book
because religious groups thought a scene featuring a spider licking her lips could be taken in two ways, including sexual
.
What really killed James parents?
Originally, In the book,
the rhino
is actually just a normal rhinoceros that had escaped from the London Zoo, though it nevertheless was responsible for killing James' parents (with the book erroneously claiming it ate them).
What does BFG stand for?
The BFG is a fictional weapon found in many video games, mostly in first-person shooter series such as Doom and Quake. The abbreviation BFG stands for “
Big Fucking Gun
” as described in Tom Hall's original Doom design document and in the user manual of Doom II: Hell on Earth.
What are children called in BFG?
In early drafts of the story, the child snatched by the BFG from an orphanage bedroom was not Sophie, but a little boy named
Jody
. Jody soon transformed into Sophie – named after Roald's first grandchild – the resourceful and brave girl who helps the BFG outwit those other horrible giants.
What does Snozzcumber mean?
A snozzcumber is
a knobbly vegetable like an enormous cucumber with black and white stripes
. Snozzcumbers taste disgusting but they are all the BFG has to eat, as he refuses to hunt human beans like other giants. Phizz-whizzing and whizzpopping may sound similar, but they mean very different things!
Is James and the Giant Peach real?
The inspiration for the giant peach came from a cherry tree in the orchard at Roald Dahl's Buckinghamshire countryside home. … He considered several different giant fruits, but eventually settled on the idea of a giant peach.
How did James and the Giant Peach end?
In the movie they're alive until the very end and drive through the Atlantic Ocean to get to America. The peach then lands in the sea where
it gets attacked by sharks
. The insects and James work out a plot to carry the peach out with a flock of seagulls tied to it.
Is James and the Giant Peach a dream?
Unlike in the novel, James' aunts are not killed by the rolling peach (although his parents' deaths takes place as in the novel), and the film also
has James dream of going to New York
instead of simply winding up there.
Why is the Giving Tree a banned book?
The Giving Tree was banned from a public library in Colorado in 1988
because it was interpreted as being sexist
. Some readers believe that the young boy continually takes from the female tree, without ever giving anything in return.
Why is Charlotte's Web a banned book?
For example, in 2006 “Charlotte's Web,” by E.B. White, was banned
because “talking animals are blasphemous and unnatural
.” Some versions of William Shakespeare's “Romeo and Juliet” were banned in South Carolina because they were too mature, which I guess is frowned upon there.
Is James and the Giant Peach inappropriate?
With some scary moments and instances of parent figure bullying, we would recommend ‘James and the Giant Peach' as suitable for children aged 5 and over.
Bad Language
: 1/5 (one character says, ‘You, sir, are an ass.”)
