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Book

The BFG

Call Number

  • J DAHL (CEN, EAS, OSH, WSQ)

Edition

1st American ed.

Publication Information

New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1982.

Physical Description

ix, 219 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Summary

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.

Notes

Quentin Blake is the 2002 winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award.

Subjects

Added Authors

Quentin Blake