But along came the peach! Let us bowl! "About five million people are standing down there on the streets watching us." "Or maybe they came from the Moon!"
The Old-GreenGrasshopper and the Ladybug gave the Earthworm's tail an enormous tug, and like magic the Earthworm disappeared into the tunnel. Aunt Spiker yelled. "Perhaps we are in the middle of a beautiful country full of songs and music," the Old-GreenGrasshopper said. "The Ladybug!" "I can't swim at all!" "But they are all of them loved?" They all swung around to look. "But I really did love that little boy." James glanced up and saw Aunt Spiker standing over him, grim and tall and bony, glaring at him through her steel-rimmed spectacles. Comprehension by chapter, vocabulary challenges, creative reading response activities and projects, tests, and much more! "It lost an awful lot of juice when all those hailstones hit it in the night. "You must come up and see this!" "Come closer to me, little boy," he said, beckoning to James with a finger. "He never did come back in, did he?" James is a lonely young boy who is forced to work like a slave for the most revolting aunts in England. Fetch me the mop with the long handle!' cried Miss Spider, as the room gave another violent lurch.
Everybody was beginning slowly and painfully to disentangle himself from everybody else. It takes me hours to get them all off by myself." About the Author Roald Dahl is the author of some of the finest and most widely read children's books ever published, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and Danny the Champion of the World. cried the Earthworm.
The Centipede poked his head cautiously out of the tunnel entrance. "Light! "Can you see it?" "No," Aunt Spiker said.
"Skyhooks, I suppose," jeered the Centipede. After years of feeling like an outsider in the house of his despicable Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker, James has finally found a place where he belongs. "The boy is quite right," the Old-Green-Grasshopper said, "We are floating beautifully. The Old-Green-Grasshopper had wisely said that they must not risk going out of the side entrance when they didn't know where they were, but must first of all go up onto the top of the peach and have a look around. the Old-Green-Grasshopper cried. His arm was aching. he had begged. and the illustrations make this a gem." "Eat all you want! begged Miss Spider. And now it was so big it looked like an enormous butter-colored pumpkin dangling from the top of the tree. ping! They gaped. "Look out!" 35 Round and round and upside down went the peach as it plummeted toward the earth, and they were all clinging desperately to the stem to save themselves from being flung into space. And don't let those green things in there get away from you either! By the time the procession was over, the whole gigantic fruit had been completely eaten up, and only the big brown stone in the middle, licked clean and shiny by ten thousand eager little tongues, was left standing on the truck.
And now I'm a pest, I'm the biggest and best, The most marvelous pest once again!" It was just awful. Aunt Spiker snapped, happening to overhear him. There's land below!" "That's right," Aunt Sponge declared. Then a faint greenish light began to glimmer out of the Glow-worm's tail, and this gradually became stronger and stronger until it was anyway enough to see by. "Let's have some light!" Everybody was feeling happy now. He's still downstairs! The travelers were close enough now to see that this was exactly what the Cloud-Men were doing. Start spinning!" "We are finished now! And now came the big moment. They are much nicer than the Two-Spotted ones, although I myself find them a trifle too saucy for my taste." there had been a tremendous burst of cheering all around. "My dear old trout!" Then it rushed madly across about twenty fields, breaking down all the fences and hedges in its path. the Chief of Police asked him.
Some would be riding tricycles in their gardens. I am slowly shriveling up for want of food. They began pushing and jostling, and each one of them was thinking only about saving herself. 32 And when full daylight came at last, they all got to their feet and stretched their poor cramped bodies, and then the Centipede, who always seemed to see things first, shouted, "Look! He loves us even more, I believe, than he loves the Ladybug."
"Look at that funny thin black thing gliding through the water over there!" Aunt Spiker, on the other hand, was lean and tall and bony, and she wore steel-rimmed spectacles that fixed onto the end of her nose with a clip. shouted the Old-Green-Grasshopper, hopping up and down with excitement. . Keep out of it!" Don't interrupt!" 9 Hungry and trembling, James stood alone out in the open, wondering what to do. shouted the Centipede, kicking himself free, and James was promptly flung across the room into the Old-Green-Grasshopper's horny lap. "Let's watch and see." cried Miss Spider, wringing her feet. "And Auntie Spiker!
It wasn't raindrops at all. But then on the twentysixth of April last, Aunt Sponge -- the late Aunt Sponge, I mean -- happened to glance up at the ceiling, and she spotted her. Now we must all sit down and keep perfectly calm. Then the Mayor shouted, "We must now have a ticker-tape parade for our wonderful visitors!" . "What a heavenly taste!" There were more sharks than ever now around the peach. I still feel it." "And a mammoth spider!" "You know what this is, my dear? But the Cloud-Men had no intention of stopping. Then Miss Spider's large black murderous-looking head, which to a stranger was probably the most terrifying of all, appeared next to the Grasshopper's.
You are one of the crew. she said to James when it came to his turn. "Let's all lend the Centipede a hand and get it over with," the Ladybug said. The giant peach swayed gently from side to side as it floated along, and the hundreds of silky white strings going upward from its stem were beautiful in the moonlight. . "I didn't mean that," said James quickly. Panic and pandemonium broke out among the travelers, and James Henry Trotter, glancing up quickly, saw the faces of a thousand furious Cloud-Men peering down at him over the edge of the cloud. they chanted as they worked. Then he got down off the sofa and ambled across the room and crawled into his hammock. It reminds me of Aunt Spiker -- the late Aunt Spiker, I mean -- because the last time she painted her kitchen ceiling my poor darling grandmother stepped into it by mistake when it was still wet, and there she stuck. The strings of the violin, the part that made the sound, was the edge of his wing. "I know what this is! The Promised Land! "One at a time, please! ." And soon, in the space of only a few seconds, every single one of them had gone! "I am a pest and I'm proud of it! the Centipede answered.
"Isn't it glorious!" It went right through the middle of a herd of fine Jersey cows, and then through a flock of sheep, and then through a paddock full of horses, and then through a yard full of pigs, and soon the whole countryside was a seething mass of panic-stricken animals stampeding in all directions.
said the Head of the Fire Department. they cried. asked Miss Spider. A few women screamed. "But my dear Spiker, that's perfectly ridiculous. "Put on another seagull, quick!" shouted the Old-Green-Grasshopper. .
It tasted delicious.
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