Kidsnatched from her orphange by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.

Well, first of all, said the BFG, human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist. Sophie discovers that giants not only exist, but that there are a great many of them who like to guzzle and swallomp nice little chiddlers. But not the Big Friendly Giant. He and Sophie cook up an ingenious plot to free the world of troggle-humping -- forever.

Illustrator:

Quentin Blake

Publisher:

Farrar Straus Giroux

ISBN:

9780374304690

Publication date:

November 1982

Length:

246mm

Width:

162mm

Thickness:

21mm

Weight:

472g

Pages:

220

Illustrations:

Illustrated

Readership:

Age: 08 - 11

Illustrated:

Illustrated

Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake are uncanny in their understanding of what children like to read and see. Sophie, an eight-year-old orphan, is kidnapped by the BFG (Big Friendly Giant) and taken to Giantland, where [her] alliance with the BFG and the queen of England results in the capture of the nine evil giants. Children will enjoy this book. -- The New York Times Book Review