James and the Giant Peach (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) : 9780143106340 : 29 Sep 2011 : A stunning 50th-anniversary deluxe edition of Roald Dahl's beloved James and the Giant Peach, featuring ?a new introduction by Aimee Bender, the New York Times bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake ?cover art by the award-winning cartoonist Jordan Crane ?the original interior art from the 1961 first edition ?French flaps and deckle-edged paper James and the Giant Peach is a perennial bestseller about a boy's magical journey across the sea, by one of the most beloved storytellers of our time. When James, a boy stuck living with his cantankerous aunts, is given magic crystals by a sympathetic wizard, he accidentally drops them at the foot of the peach tree outside his house, causing one of the fruits to grow the size of a house. Inside he finds oversized insects who promise him deliverance from his aunts, and soon the giant peach is rolling downhill, bound for the Atlan