I thought that this was a very creative book. I really liked it and thought it was great.
James Henry Trotter was four years old. He lived in a beautiful house by the sea and had wonderful parents. But one day, there was a terrible accident. Both of his parents died at the same time. The beautiful house had to be sold and James was sent away to live with his two horrible aunts. The aunts beat him for no reason and made him do all of their work. There was nothing for James to do. The aunts lived on a very steep hill, and the only things on the hill other than the house were an old peach tree and some dirty laurel bushes. The tree never gave any peaches. James had a life no one would want, but then, unexpectedly, and old man came into the garden. James was also out there, since he was sent outside to do more work. The little old man gave James one thousand magical crocodile tongues. Their magic would keep him from ever being unhappy again. James is very excited, and trips. He loses the little crocodile tongues by the peach tree. They burrow into to ground. When his aunts come out to get him, on top of the peach tree was the most delicious looking peach they had ever seen. And it was getting bigger. They stared up at the peach, it getting bigger and bigger. Soon people are coming and paying to see the peach and James is neglected. He doesn’t get anything to eat and has to clean up after the crowd that came to see the peach. He is left outside with the peach for the night. He finds a hold in the peach. The hold is a tunnel that leads to the pit of the peach. On the pit is a door. Inside is a room filled with seven new amazing friends. When one of them cuts the stem of the peach - SNAP! - the adventure begins. (Don’t forget, the peach is round and they’re on a steep hill!)
I don’t think that I would change anything in this book. It was fabulous book and shouldn’t be changed.
The illustrations went well with the story. They were not exactly well drawn but they were fun to look at while reading the stor
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