The BFG - Roald Dahl

This book is about an orphaned girl caled sophie who one night wholst she couldnt sleep saw a giant blowing something into the bedroom windows in her street, frightened she tried to hide in her bed but the giant had already see her, he reached in through her window and took her with him back to his home. Luckily for sophie he was the big friendly giant who catches good dreams and blows them into peoples bedrooms and bottles bad dreams up forever. The other giants are not like the bfg they go out each night steeling people from there beds to eat them but the bfg lives on disgusting vegetables. Sophie and the bfg become friends and decide ...  Read the complete review

The BFG is a story about a young orphan named Sophie who in the middle of the night is snatched from her bed by a mysterious very tall dark figure in a cloak. The mysterious figure turns out to be the B.F.G. also known as the Big Friendly Giant. He teaches Sophie all about Giant Country, the flesh eating giants, where dreams come from, and snozzcumbers - the only vegetable that grows there. When Sophie learns of how the flesh eating giants secretly snatch hundreds of 'human beans' and eat them every night whilst they sleep, she decides that something must be done about it once and for all. So she and the BFG concoct a wacky plan of action that ...  Read the complete review

Thanks go to dooyoo user "grinchgirl" who brought it to my attention that the BFG first appeared as one of the characters in the stories that Danny's dad told his son, in Roald's other book, "Danny The Champion Of The World". *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Roald Dahl has to be one of the most splendid authors of all time, and as for his books, crawling with magically brilliant plots and schemes, and sparkling humour, there is not a suitable adjective to describe the works of Dahl. The BFG (Big Friendly Giant) has to be his best ever piece of writing published, followed closely by ...  Read the complete review

This was one of my favourite books as a child - I liked all the Roald Dahl books such as Matilda and Danny the Champion of the World but this was the best. Since I saw that it was nominated in the BBC's "Big Read" list of top books I thought that I would re-read it from a slightly older perspective. The BFG For anyone who has never read the BFG (you must have been a deprived child) the name stands for the Big Friendly Giant. The story is about a little girl named Sophie - Roald Dahl's granddaughter in real life. The illustrations by Quentin Blake are based on what she looked like as a little girl, and the BFG looks like Roald Dahl ...  Read the complete review

Dahl has got to be one of the most magical authors of all time. I have yet to read a Roald Dahl book that wouldn't capture the imagination of any reader, young or old, and this is no exception. It's a million of your childhood fantasies about being whisked away to a fantastical place, to rid the world of a terrible evil, to find out where dreams (and nightmares) actually come from. Dahl spins an amazing tale, and I defy anyone not to be disgusted by the Giants, the most horrible band of murderers ever to walk the earth (and this is a kid's book?). Sophie is everyman's perfect heroine, the orphan girl who saves the world by enlisting ...  Read the complete review