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Dear Ms.Vallejo,

I’m recommending this book because it’s very entertaining for little kids. This is a kid’s book but I still recommend this book to you because I enjoyed it. It’s sad in way but still a funny and good book. It will make you sad because the way James gets treated by his two aunts, Spiker and Sponge. It’s a good book because it shows the friendship and the value between the creatures and James. Basically this book is about James having to move with his two horrid aunts Spiker and Sponge after the death of his parents. His parents died eaten by an escaped rhino from the London Zoo. When he tries to save a spider and he comes to the possession of magic boiled crocodile tongues that a strange man gave to him. When the crocodile tongues fall on the old peach tree an enormous peach starts to grow in the garden. Venturing inside he meets not only the spider but a number of new friends including a ladybug and a centipede who helped him with his plan to try to get to New York. This is a good book because it’s one of Roald Dahl’s books. Not just one of his books the first one. He was a very good children’s book writer. This book is pretty interesting because it shows how living with terrible people can bring you to something called an adventure. Compared to other stories this one is faithful and it has its own wonderful adaption. It’s sad how he had to live about three years on that hill with no friends. It is pretty imaginative because who could have ever thought of a peach flying in the air with a boy and creatures.  One example from the book, a passage of how the parents died, “then one day, James’s mother and father went to London to do some shopping, and there a terrible thing happened. Both of them suddenly got eaten up(in full daylight, mind you, and in a crowded street) by an enormous angry rhinoceros which had escaped from the London Zoo.” Another example from the book is describing his two aunts, “Their names were Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker, and I am sorry to say that they were both really horrible people. They were selfish and lazy and cruel and right from the beginning they started beating poor James for almost no reason at all. They never called him by his real name, but always referred to him as, “you disgusting little beast’ or “you filthy nuisance” or “ you miserable creature” and they certainly never gave him any toys to play with or any picture books to look at. His room was a bare as a prison cell.”

Another example would be what the old man tells James what to do with the crocodile tongues. “Take a large jug of water and pour all the little green things into it. Then very slowly one by one add ten hairs from your own head. That set them off! It gets them going! In a couple of minutes the water will begin to froth and bubble furiously, and as soon as that happens you must quickly drink it all down, the whole jugful in one gulp. And then my dear you will feel it churning and boiling in your stomach and steam will start coming out of your mouth and immediately after that marvelous things will start happening to you.”

Sincerely,

Vanessa