If you had to choose a favourite Roald Dahl book then The BFG would have to be one of them. This book is for kids and also has very silly words and more! And it will really make you laugh out loud!! I banged on the table and laughed at the word 'snozcumber'. Kids will especially love the rude humour when The BFG drinks frobscottle. If you look at a map of the world, there’s something you won’t see. Hidden far away is a place called Giant Country, home of the Big Friendly Giant (The BFG for short). The Witching Hour Sophie couldn't sleep. A brilliant moonbeam was slanting through a gap in the curtains. It was shining right on to her pillow. The other children in the dormitory had been asleep for hours. Sophie closed her eyes and lay quite still. She tried very hard to doze off. It was no good. The moonbeam was like a silver blade slicing through the room on to her face. The house was absolutely silent. No voices came up from downstairs. There were no footsteps on the floor above either. The window behind the curtain was wide open, but nobody was walking on the pavement outside. No cars went by on the street. Not the tiniest sound could be heard anywhere. Sophie had never known such a silence. Perhaps, she told herself, this was what they called the witching hour. The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world to themselves. The moonbeam was brighter than ever on Sophie's pillow. She decided to get out of bed and close the gap in the curtains. You got punished if you were caught out of bed after lights-out. Even if you said you had to go to the lavatory, that was not accepted as an excuse and they punished you just the same. But there was no one about now, Sophie was sure of that. 8 This was a really great imaginative story and if you love Roald Dahls books you'll love this one too! Especially the crazy giant foods like snozzcumber made me laugh! I really enjoyed the funny language and the characters ​in this book. I'd recommend this book to all my friends and any reader age 6+.

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Listen to one of the songs from the film. Could you compose a song to use in a new movie adaptation of the book?Through a series of peculiar and magical happenings, James finds himself on an adventure inside a giant peach with a bunch of friendly giant insects for travelling companions. The BFG uses a trumpet to blow dreams into children’s bedrooms. Find out how trumpets work and describe the sounds that they make. Sophie, a little "human bean," gets up one night and spies from her window, a long spindly shape creeping around in the dark. Much to her horror, a real-life giant bounds up to her window and snatches her. He whisks her away to giant country where she learns that every night, giants steal humans for their dinner and would eat her in a heartbeat. He also explains what he was doing with the trumpet and suitcase. He catches dreams, stores them in the cave, and then gives the good ones to children all around the world. He destroys the bad ones.

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Also, I noticed that there was quite a lot of violence and racial stereotyping that would probably be controversial in a children's book by today's standards. This is just an observation, not me being the book police!Once you’ve finished, roll up your piece of paper, pop it in a jar for The BFG, and leave it by your bedroom window. If you wanted to make something extra special, then have a go at decorating your jar. An animated adaptation was released in 1989 with David Jason providing the voice of the BFG and Amanda Root as the voice of Sophie. It has also been adapted as a theatre performance. [2] A theatrical Disney live-action adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg was released in 2016. Another niggling doubt about the book was the resolution with the giants being imprisoned in a giant pit, doomed to eat disgusting snozzcumbers for the rest of their lives. I think that Dahl was well-intentioned in including the conversation between the BFG and Sophie about how humans make their own rules, and giants make their own rules and that the rules don't coincide. When I got to this conversation, which included the the BFG basically telling Sophie that it was somewhat judgmental or short-sighted of her to immediately think of the other giants as bad, because humans, unlike giants, kill their own kind all the time, I thought that the story was incredibly promising. However, the story ended as they typically do, especially in "children's" literature, with the "bad" guys getting captured and the "good" guys living happily ever after without the moral ambiguity that Dahl touched upon in that one particular conversation between Sophie and the BFG. I think that it might have been more interesting if it was ever brought up that perhaps giants just eat humans just as humans eat bacon, sausage, and eggs, just as Sophie, the BFG, and the Queen did at the end of the story, and that perhaps the solution would be to respect all life, just as the BFG always had (before uncharacteristically eating all that bacon and sausage at the end of the novel) because he could hear the world's suffering. Instead, as I mentioned, the story has a more typical ending, and it is emotionally acceptable that the human-eating giants are imprisoned with disgusting food for the rest of their lives (and the Queen is humane for imprisoning them rather than killing them, to boot) only because Dahl portrays the giants as disgusting throughout the entire novel. Although the giants are portrayed as mean in the scene during which they toss around the BFG, emphasis is continuously on how the giants are "half-naked and disgusting" in their appearance and smell. Thus, emphasis is placed on their physical, rather than moral disgustingness, and to me, this is too reminiscent of the way that we vilify those who are different than us to justify our inhuman treatment of them. Mary: The Queen's maid. Voiced by Mollie Sugden in the 1989 film and portrayed by Rebecca Hall in the 2016 film.

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When the giant grubs her with his big arms she’s certain that he will eat her. She was wrong, not that giants don’t eat kids it’s just that this giant doesn’t eat kids or humans in general. Because this giant, this giant is the BFG (Big friendly giant). He takes her to his home and although he is a very nice guy he can’t let her go because he is afraid that she will tell everybody that giants exist and people will hunt them. However he protects her from the other 9 man eating giants.BFG เขาเป็นยักษ์ที่ตัวเล็กเมื่อเทียบกับเพื่อนยักษ์ตัวอื่นๆ และนอกจากนี้แล้วภาษาที่เขาใช้คุยกับโซฟีก็ยังดูแปลกประหลาดอีกด้วย BFG เป็นยักษ์ที่ทำหน้าที่สร้างฝันดีให้แก่เหล่าเด็กๆ แต่ก็มักจะโดนเพื่อนยักษ์ด้วยกันกลั่นแกล้งอยู่เสมอ BFG ออกมาสร้างสีสันตลอดทั้งเรื่องจนทำให้อ่านไปอมยิ้มไป ส่วนโซฟีก็พรีเซนต์ตัวละครที่อยู่ในช่วงวัยเด็กออกมาได้อย่างเหมาะสม สไตล์การเล่าเรื่องมีความคมที่เป็นเสน่ห์ของนิยาย ไม่แปลกใจเลยที่ The BFG สามารถเข้าถึงได้ทุกช่วงวัยแบบนี้ อ่านแล้วปลื้มมาก ที่นิยายเด��กธรรมดาๆ สามารถสร้างออกมาให้ดูมีมนต์ขลังมากๆขนาดนี้ Dahl, Roald (2000). 好心眼儿巨人 (in Chinese). Translated by Rong Rong Ren. Jinan: Ming tian Chu ban she. If you didn’t dream, maybe you could write about your best dream ever! You could even keep a dream diary for a whole week if you want to. The BFG is a favourite book of many children and these resources are brilliant for helping extend a child's learning with the help of the BFG and Sophie.