From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG! Roald Dahl was a champion of the underdog and all things little—in this case, an orphaned boy oppressed by two nasty, self-centered aunts. How James escapes his miserable life with the horrible aunts and becomes a hero is a Dahlicious fantasy of the highest order. You will never forget resourceful little James and his new family of magically overgrown insects—a ladybug, a spider, a grasshopper, a glowworm, a silkworm, and the chronic complainer, a centipede with a hundred gorgeous shoes. Their adventures aboard a luscious peach as large as a house take them across the Atlantic Ocean, through waters infested with peach-eating sharks and skies inhabited by malevolent Cloudmen, to a ticker-tape parade in New York City. This happily ever after contemporary fairy tale is a twentieth-century classic that every child deserves to know. And Lane Smith's endearingly funny illustrations are a perfect match for the text. "All the gruesome imagery of old-fashioned fairy tales and a good measure of their breathtaking delight." —Kirkus Reviews "A stunning book, to be cherished for its story, a superb fantasy." —The Chicago Tribune "The most original fantasy that has been published in a long time...[it] may well become a classic." —San Francisco Chronicle

ロアルド・ダールの真髄は、過酷な現実を鮮烈なナンセンスで突破する「解放の文学」にあります。孤独な少年が巨大な桃という異形の器で旅立つ姿は、想像力が自らを救済する過程の結晶です。醜悪さと愛嬌を併せ持つ虫たちとの絆は、血縁を超えた「家族」の尊さを説き、読者の心に毒気を含んだ勇気を灯してくれます。 映像版はこのシュールな世界を立体化し、原作の幻想性に手触りを与えました。活字特有の奔放な語り口と映像の造形美。この両輪を味わうことで、少年の不安と歓喜はより重層的に響き渡ります。言葉の魔術と映像の魔法が溶け合う時、読者は忘れていた「不可能を信じる力」を鮮烈に取り戻すのです。