There are a number of books that shape the youth of a child. This was one of those books for me, alongside a handful of other Roald Dahl classics. I remember reading it (and having my father do so as well) and getting lost in the story, which I did again today. Young Sophie finds herself unable to sleep one night at the orphanage in which she resides. Peering out the window, she sees a shadowy figure passing down the road, with an odd contraption he uses while poking his head into surround windo...

A fantastic story about a misunderstood giant and a brave little girl. My kids and I loved this story but never saw the movie because we were scared to be disappointed. Dahl's stories are always full of wonderful humour and inventiveness and this was definitely one of his most imaginative. A wonderful and beautiful masterpiece.

I really love this book. It's pretty short but the story is very joyful. The BFG is a good giant, he intrigued me with his own language from the first. Sophie is a girl kidnapped from her bed and her adventure just begins when she and the BFG have to stop the ruthless giants before they devour all of human beans.Dahl could create the book that hooked me from the beginning and the ending of this book was so delightful, I felt very happy after I finished it. I like his writing style, it captivates...

Do you know what the BFG stood for before his publisher told him he had to think of other words for the acronym? Dahl wasn't joking either, not at all. This story is of a man's interest in a prepubescent girl. The first thing he does is enter her bedroom in the middle of the night, blow "dust" over her and kidnap her. Taking her away from the orphanage she lives in to the land of the extremely unfriendly giants who, in the original draft forced the little girl to look at their giant 'clubs'. But...

Don't gobblefunk around with words. This entire book was a gobblefunk of words. Snapperwhippers and babblement and crockadowndillies. My inner grumpy adult came out about 1/2 way through the book - just say what you mean! Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right. Yes, yes you were, Mr. BFG - you went left the entire book.Sophie, a little "human bean," gets up one night and spies from her window, a long spind

The BFG, Roald DahlThe BFG (The Big Friendly Giant) is a 1982 children's book written by British novelist Roald Dahl. The start of the book begins with an eight-year-old orphan girl named Sophie lying in bed in an orphanage run by Mrs. Clonkers. She cannot sleep, and sees a strange sight in the street; a giant man, carrying a bag and an odd trumpet. He sees Sophie, who tries to hide in bed, but the giant picks her up through the window. Then he runs quickly to a large cave, which he enters.When

Two wrongs don’t make a right WHAT A BOOK IT WAS! What an ending it was! I can't control my emotions. I haven't felt anything like this before. I haven't read a children book like this. I am soo happy by reading this. I am soo in love with the characters. Or writing. Or everything which this book offered me. It took me little long to finish this because of my exams. Otherwise this book was soo good that I wanted to finish it in one sitting. Nevertheless, I am finished with this and

“We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.” I love the BFG, as a child this was one of my favourite books (and films.) There’s just something captivating about the story, about how a mystical creature could appear in your bedroom in the middle of the night and take you to another world (a more exciting world.) And that’s why Roald Dahl is such a successful children’s author; here he does exactly what the best books in the genre do. He gives you a glimpse

Like many others, I remember the Roald Dahl books that I read, or had read to me, during my childhood fondly, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and especially, Matilda. Perhaps because I expected to have the same childhood reading adventure as I had with those books, I liked, but did not love, The BFG. I think that Dahl's idea for the story is a creative one, but little things, such as the puns on the names of countries when the BFG describes the taste of "h...

REVIEW TO COMEThis is going to be a mini review.'Sometimes, on a very clear night,' the BFG said, 'and if I is swiggling my ears in the right direction'-and here he swivelled his great ears upwards so they were facing the ceiling - 'if I is swiggling them like this and the night is very clear, I is sometimes hearing faraway music coming from the stars in the sky.'I finally read this book after leaving it standing on my bookshelf for months because I still hadn't find the right time to read it un...

We have all heard the story of Jack and the beanstock, right or left? We are all familiar with stories about giants, right or left? The BFG was a story that will make people smile but also encourage them to lock their windows at night... Takeing place in the United Kingdom the BGF captures hearts all over the world and I am so thankful to Roland Dahl for publising such a sweet book that shows friendship and love. This book captured my heart as it wil yours. In London, England eight year old Sop

I love the BFG's speech - so original. The tale is loads of fun. The fact that the giant gives people good dreams is enough to convince me he is a Big friendly Giant. There are beautiful moments in this story and I am impressed by how unique the story is. James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the chocolate factory are better, but not by much. This is a fantastic story.I remember my brother read this as a kid while I was reading Matilda. I thought about reading the story too, but I didn't bec...

I love Roald Dahl. What wonderful children's literature he wrote. Even though its for children adults love it too. Like Enid Blyton and Beatrix Potter. Lovely easy reading. I strongly recommend all three authors.🐯👍

My daughter adored this book and I still have the book today. One of our favourites.

"What a spiffling whoppsy room we is in! It is so gigantuous I is needing bicurculers!" Please kill me now. No, I mean it. Seriously. Kill me now. "I am brimfull of buzzburgers, This is a sizzling-hot muckfrumping country..."Please, God. Oh please, please God, make it stop, make it stop, just make it..."What a phizz-whizzing flushbunking seat. I is going to be as bug as a snug in a rug up here..."NOOOO!! Sweet mother of God!!!!Am I still alive? Is it over? Please tell me it's over. I scan throug...

Reread because the trailer for the upcoming movie got me all excited! Classic, love this story so much.

Marvelonto! Delitio!! - "The Royal Dream-Blower.""I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right."It was #SuchADelight to read this book. But sadly, this one was short. Sophie and The BFG will be missed. It is an awesome and scrumdiddlyumptious story.

Entertaining little story. I know I am not the intended audience at this point in my life, but it takes me back to when I was a kid and read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, and Danny Champion of the World. I used to really enjoy Dahl's books and it has been a long time since I have read one.This one was less story and more silly wordplay and fantasy. Towards the end it gets into a storyline, but at least the first half is mainly just a conversation betwee...

honestly a life of solitude in which i am surrounded by dreams in jars and people have given me a cool nickname with an initialism for short and then later i become best friends with a quirky little girl and i meet the queen of england...well, that sounds pretty good to me.part of a series i'm doing in which i review books i read a long time ago

I'm not going to lie, I'm rather disappointed with BFG (which I've never read before)-- but is the favorite Dahl book of many of my friends. I found it to be pretty grating and not that pleasant a read for the following reasons:1) Jar Jar Binks factor. The BFG speaks in his weird, uneducated pigdin that I frankly find kind of insulting. I'm sure children around the English speaking world are all thrilled by what Dahl has created-- but honestly, even for a word-monger like me, this is pretty ridi...