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| The BFG | 
 enlarge | Author: Roald Dahl
Creator: Quentin Blake
Publisher: Puffin
Category: Book
List Price: $6.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  329 reviews
Sales Rank: 4761
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 4.9 x 1
ISBN: 0142410381
EAN: 9780142410387
ASIN: 0142410381
Publication Date: August 16, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: paperback. Decent reading copy, some cover edge wear.
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Amazon.com Review
Evidently not even Roald Dahl could resist the acronym craze of the early eighties. BFG? Bellowing ferret-faced golfer? Backstabbing fairy godmother? Oh, oh ... Big Friendly Giant! This BFG doesn't seem all that F at first as he creeps down a London street, snatches little Sophie out of her bed, and bounds away with her to giant land. And he's not really all that B when compared with his evil, carnivorous brethren, who bully him for being such an oddball runt. After all, he eats only disgusting snozzcumbers, and while the other Gs are snacking on little boys and girls, he's blowing happy dreams in through their windows. What kind of way is that for a G to behave? The BFG is one of Dahl's most lovable character creations. Whether galloping off with Sophie nestled into the soft skin of his ear to capture dreams as though they were exotic butterflies; speaking his delightful, jumbled, squib-fangled patois; or whizzpopping for the Queen, he leaves an indelible impression of bigheartedness. (Ages 9 to 12)
Product Description
Luckily for Sophie, the BFG is nothing like his neighbors, whose favorite pastime is guzzling little children.
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 Wonderful language and characters! May 22, 2000
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
Dahl's superb imagination has created a character, the BFG, who talks so whimsically and winsomely that I laughed out loud while reading this book. His child friend, Sophie, has no trouble understanding him, however, although she sometimes has to translate for less flexible or more pompous adults. The BFG's interactions with his fearsome peers demonstrate a high level of courage, particularly for a comic figure, and his nighttime activities indicate a delicacy of perception that few of us could attain. This is no two-dimensional character, but a real person that one would like to meet. The only fault I have to find with the book is that Sophie's strategy works too flawlessly, leaving no loose ends, no monsters at large who need to be chased. The relaxation of dramatic tension is complete. But then, I'm an adult; children who look under their beds each night would certainly prefer Dahl's ending. When I started reading this to my children, my first-grader, not an eager reader, could not bear to have me stop at the end of a chapter, and actually went on to read the next by himself. Parents, take note!
 pure, vintage Dahl!! May 4, 2001
20 out of 23 found this review helpful
Young Sophie lies awake in her orphanage at the Witching Hour! She can't sleep and strange, macabre thoughts go through her head. The real fun begins, however, when she creeps to her window and sees a giant figure poking about in the 2nd floor windows across the street! My gosh, it's a GIANT!! The real fun begins when he kidnaps her from her bed and runs off to the land of giants.In the hands of a less capable author than Dahl, this plotline would soon fizzle and become ho-hum humdrum. Say what you will, Dahl is a very, VERY capable author and this book is simply fabulous. While most giants are the people eating kind (with colorful names like Childchewer, Bloodbottler and Fleshlumpeater), Sophie is lucky to have been captured by the BFG-- Big Friendly Giant! He's no guzzler of people (known in Giantspeak as "human beans"-- giants don't go to school and their grammer is somewhat lacking) but is rather a gentle soul who has a special trade to ply in the human world. There's only two small problems: the BFG lives in the land of giants where the other louts would only be too glad to guzzle her right up, and there's no food other than a strange, disgusting vegetable called a snozzcumber (it tastes like frog skins and dead fish). So, while Sophie's happy not to have been eaten up, she's none to happy to find that there's always that threat of being discovered and noting for HER to eat. Besides, the other giants (much bigger than the BFG) are constantly running to other countries to guzzle human beans by the cartload (Chille beans are especially yummy, we're told...). Something MUST be done... but what? Maybe she should go tell the queen... I came to Dahl's work late in life (that is, recently, not in childhood) and have slowly been making my way through his works. So far, "The BFG" ranks as his best work. It is continuously engaging, very funny, and keeps the reader engaged from page 1 all the way through to the end. Young or intermediate readers may have difficulty with some of the phonetically spellings and Dahl-inspired words like "snozzcumber", "whizzpopping" and the generally gobbled-up grammar of the giants' speech. Still, it is a fantastic, fast-paced story that will be enjoyed for years to come by young and old. Highly recommended.
Coolio Book January 4, 2000
12 out of 16 found this review helpful
This book was so cool! I loved it! It was about a BFG(You'll find out what that means when you read the book) who kidnapped a little girl named Sophie who saw him blowing a dream into her ear with a funny trumpet looking object. The main goal in this story is to stop the big ugly smelly mean scary giants from eating children when they are asleep in bed. My favorite part of the book was when sophie and the BFG go and meet the queen to tell her about the big nasty giants that gobble up kids and during breakfast the BFG blows a whizzpopper! You will find out what that is when you read this excellent book. So hurry up and go by this great book in a bookstore near you before they run out!
The Big Friendly Review December 9, 1999
10 out of 15 found this review helpful
The book is about a giant who finds an orphan girl named Sophie and they decide to stop the man eating giants. The story takes place in "Giant Country" and Sophie and the BFG are the main characters. My favorite part of the story is when they capture the giants. I would recommend this book because it is interesting and funny. If you like funny books then you will love the BFG.
The BFG's the book you've been looking forward to !!!!!! March 26, 2002
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is an extraordinary book, and the reader is immediately drawn into the fascinating tale. It begins like this......... Sophie is an orphan... One night, the moon was pouring in all it's brightness through her windows, casting light directly on her pillow....., unable to sleep, then, Sophie looks out of the window and.....that's when she finds herself caught by a giant called the BFG (the big Friendly Giant), but a giant so friendly and kind, that when other giants go searching for edible humans every night, he eats horrible cucumber kind of vegetables. Soon after Sophie and the BFG gets to be friends and goes to meet Queen Elizabeth for help. In the end, Sophie gets to live in a big palace with the BFG. I couldn't put this book down, so I read it in one day! It's terribly funny and interesting. It's the kind of book everyone will love reading.
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