04419cam a2200685 i 4500 545743810 TxAuBib 070912s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780374304690 0374304696 9780142410387 paperback 0142410381 paperback 9781417786121 prebound 1417786124 prebound 9780756982331 PFNL 0756982332 PFNL (OCoLC)8766 UUC eng UUC BAKER rda TxAuBib rda Dahl, Roald. The BFG / Roald Dahl ; illustrated by Quentin Blake. New York : Puffin Books, 2007. 207 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. Originally published: London : J. Cape, c1982. Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1982, an imprinting of Penguin Young Reader Group, 2007, 2013. "Now a major motion picture!"--Cover. The Witching Hour -- Who? -- The Snatch -- The Cave -- The BFG -- The Giants -- The Marvelous Ears -- Snozzcumbers -- The Bloodbottler -- Frobscottle and Whizzpoppers -- Journey to Dream Country -- Dream-Catching -- A Trogglehumper for the Fleshlumpeater -- Dreams -- The Great Plan -- Mixing the Dream -- Journey to London -- The Palace -- The Queen -- The Royal Breakfast -- The Plan -- Capture! -- Feeding Time. Snatched from her orphanage 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. The BFG--Big Friendly Giant--kidnaps Sophie from her bed in the orphanage and takes her back to Giantland where she becomes involved in a scheme to end the loathsome activities of nine evil giants. Kidsnatched from her orphanage 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. Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater, the Bonecruncher, or any of the other giants -- rather than the BFG -- she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that they are flush-bunking off in England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!. "The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any other giants--rather than the BFG--she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are flush-bunking off to England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she deciedes she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!"--(p.4) of cover. 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. 720 Lexile. Ages 8-12. Accelerated Reader. Reading Counts MG. Nancy Short; gift; 2018. Gary C. Hoppenstand Adventure Fiction Collection. Orphans Juvenile fiction. Orphans Fiction. Orphans. Giants Juvenile fiction. Giants Fiction. Giants. Fantastic fiction. Fantasy. Friendship Juvenile fiction. Friendship Fiction. Rescues Juvenile fiction. Kidnapping Fiction. Fiction. Juvenile works. Humorous fiction. Blake, Quentin, illustrator. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol054/82015548.html Contributor biographical information