James and the Giant Peach Adolfo Bioy Casares beautifully realized memoir in which

beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year

accusing the complacent French politicians― at the minimum―of negligent homicide

Along the way she befriends Svetlana

The book's journal-like format and activities that range across the seasons make it a long-term and much treasured companion

At once a careful reckoning and an elegy

James and the Giant Peach Adolfo Bioy Casares beautifully realized memoir in whichJames Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that looks boiled and Aunt Spiker is bony and screeching. He's very lonely until one day something peculiar happens. At the end of the garden a peach starts to grow and grow and grow. Inside that peach are seven very unusual insects all waiting to take James on a magical adventure. But where will they go in their Giant Peach and what will happen to the horrible