Het is niet van mijn gewoonte de boeken die ik voorlees aan mijn kinderen bij mijn 'gelezen boeken' hier op Goodreads te tellen, maar aangezien dit boek behoorlijk wat voorleesavonden heeft gevraagd, vond ik dat het mocht.
Ik vond óók dat het mocht omdat dit voorleesexemplaar er nog eentje was uit mijn eigen kinderboekenkast, al een beetje versleten van het vele lezen.
En omdat dit het eerste boek is dat mijn zoon en dochter (respectievelijk 5 en 6 jaar), voor wie we een "heel eerlijk" systeem hebben bedacht dat ze elk om beurt elke avond een boek mogen uitkiezen (absoluut noodzakelijk om de vrede in huis te bewaren), telkens opnieuw gezamenlijk uitkozen. Dat zegt iets over een boek.
En ja, ook nu ik volwassen ben, vind ik dat het nog niets van zijn charme verloren heeft. Eigenlijk is de GVR niet altijd zo heel vriendelijk tegen Sofie, en eigenlijk is Sofie een beetje van een betweter, maar dat maakt dit boek juist zo uniek. Het heerlijke taaltje blijft zalig (zij het soms uitdagend om voor te lezen, haha) en concepten als "snoskommer", "flitspopper" en "fropskottel" hebben intussen hun plekje in dit huishouden veroverd.
Heerlijk.

Loved it! <3

This is the funniest Roald Dahl I've read so far :P It's witty, ironic, and most of all silly!

Spielberg made this book into a movie! Def gonna watch it

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 Sophie Evans is tucked tight in bed in a girls orphanage when she hears a noise outside durning the witching hour. Sophie bravely gets out of her bed and looks out the windo and what does she see but a great big giant with a... Well a trumpet... Sophie quickly runs back to bed and covers her head when a great big hand reaches in and snatches her from her bed in the girls orphanage. Away the tall creature took her until they ended up in Giant Country... Sophie was terrified that the giant was going to eat her but the BFG turned out to be a diffrent kind of giant. The Big Friendly Giant did not eat human beans because he felt it was disgraceful and wrong but his other giant friends did. The BFG was misunderstod by the others and was often pushed around and called names. Sophie becamw the BFG's best friend and she had no choice not to live with him because she had seen him that evening in London. The BFG was a dream catcher and he liked to mix certain things to make one dream it was up to him if he wanted to make a god dream or a bad dream. One day Sophie decided it was time for the other nine giants to be stopped from eating women and children so the BFG and Sophie decided to pay the queen of England a visit and in order to do that they had to mix a nightmare for her to see what was going on in her contry. Of course i am not going to ruin the whole book for you so i am going to stop there… I can tell you that  The giants were eventualy captured and taken to England where they were forced to live in cages and eat snuzzlecumbers ...

In my opinion is that this book is kind of scary for children under the third grade... No child is going to want to pick up a bok about giants eating children while they are asleep in their beds.

Child: Mommy is there giants outside?
Mother: Of course not *Shuts out the light and closes the door*
Child: *Eyes wide with fright*
Neighbors Dog: Woof! Woof! Howl!
Child: *Screams* Its the Bonecruncher and he is gonna eat me!!!!
From the other room you and your spouse are going to be watching telivision while you rson or daughter is haveing a panic attack at the other side of the house… Why?… Because you let them read a horrifying bok like this before they were old enough.

I got really engaged in the story and i personally wanted more adventure because in the end Roland Dahl speeds up the story way to much like he automaticaly wants it to end because he did not have anymore ideas. That upset me because the BFG could have been so much more adventuress and the author could have made him and little Sophie more plots. Most of the story takses place in Giant Country in the BFG's home. Lots of new words were learned for me in this story that even though are not real words i may still use them scrumdiliumptchus was one of my personal favorites… I rate the BFG with four stars for such a great one- hundred and fifty pages before slipping… The artwork was great and i loved not being able to put the story book down.

My Rateing
4/5

REVIEW TO COME

This 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 until few days ago. Few days ago I was in the mood for children books or middle grade books to help me to get over my book - hangover and so I chose to read this book.
this book indeed quite helped me to get over my book - hangover and the story was quite fun but I couldn't give this book more than 3 stars because of the giant's languange. The way he spoke always confused me. like this :

n  'It's a trogglehumper!' he shouted. His voice was filled with fury and anguish. 'Oh, save our solos!' he cried. 'Deliver us from weasels! The devil is dancing on my dibbler!'n



most of the time I was confused and I was like " What ... ???? " but the story was pretty good but not really awesome in my opinion. The story didn't make my heart pounding hard but the story wasn't bad either. it was just okay.
I'm sure I would've liked this book more if I had completely understood all BFG said but most of the time I didn't really understand what he said but I really loved the illustrations! they were great and I loved them.

thank you for reading and liking this review. I hope you all have a great day!❤❤

“The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world to themselves.”



After finishing the last page of this incredibly intruiging book, I immediately wanted to reread it to my little sister.
I picked The BFG up right after watching the newly released trailer and I’m so happy that I did. The trailer alone looked beautiful, so I had to start the book and discover the magic of Roald Dahl again.

This story follows a young orphaned girl named Sophie, living in a girl's orphanage. One night during the witching hour, Sophie sees a cloaked giant, the ‘BFG’.
Sophie quickly befriends the friendly giant as they set out on an adventure to capture the evil, man-eating giants who have been invading the human world.

I’m so glad that I took the time to read this, it really surprised me and managed to make me laugh more than I was expecting.
But it took me quite a few pages to get used to the Giant’s voice:

'What sort of human beings do you eat?' she asked, trembling. 
'Me!' shouted the Giant, his mighty voice making the glass jars rattle on their shelves. 'Me gobbling up human beans! This I never! The others, yes! All the others is gobbling them up every night, but not me! I is a freaky Giant! I is a nice and jumbly Giant! I is the only nice and jumbly Giant in Giant Country! I is THE BIG FRIENDLY GIANT! I is the BFG.'

And the overall storyline was a little slow for me. I kept searching for things to do after reading a page or two. But once I finished the first half, I started to really enjoy the adventures of Sophie and the BFG.

Also, the illustrations this book provided were wonderful, they really helped me understand and imagine the world more clearly. And I was always looking forward for the next illustration to show up in the story.



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Such a fun, whizzbang of a book! I loved it!

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.

3.5 stars or 7/10
A delightful children's book, one of Dahl's best. Just finished reading to my 4 and 6yo. They loved Sophie, the brave little girl who, along with the charming BFG, and with help from the Queen of England, save the children of the world from being gobbled up by gruesome giants! As soon as the book was finished my little girl asked me to start reading it again!

A young orphan named Sophie, awake at the witching hour one night and looking out of the window of the orphanage where she lives, is seen by a passing giant, who scoops her up through the window and brings her back to his cave. Unlike the other eight giants in existence, who are truly terrible, the BFG - Big Friendly Giant - does not eat people. Rather, he captures dreams and doles them out to good children, while they are sleeping. Nightmares, he destroys. It is Sophie who suggests that the other giants, who abuse the BFG, should be imprisoned, and the two unlikely companions make their way to London, where they enlist the aid of the Queen...

Originally published in 1982, The BFG was apparently dedicated to author Roald Dahl's daughter, Olivia, who died at the age of seven in 1962, of measles encephalitis. This is terribly poignant, and made me wonder what aspects of the story (if any) - perhaps the character of Sophie? the dream-catching? the giants? - made Dahl dedicate this to his long-dead daughter. Leaving that issue aside, I found this one quite enjoyable, when I read it for the course on the history of children's literature that I took, while getting my masters. Other than n  Charlie and the Chocolate Factoryn, which I read as a young girl, I had never read any other books by Dahl, when I picked The BFG up. I was pleasantly surprised, as I'd found the humor in 'Charlie' sufficiently nasty, as a younger reader, that I'd never approached the author's work again. Here however, I thought the tone was gentler, more compassionate, less mocking. I appreciated the conversations between Sophie and the BFG, in which "this extraordinary giant was disturbing her ideas... leading her toward mysteries that were beyond her understanding."

I won't go so far as to say I loved this one, or that it completely changed my view of Dahl, who has always seemed to me to have a rather nasty undertone to his books, but it was enjoyable, and gave me pause. The more rational adult reader in me (as opposed to the determinedly opinionated child) is constrained to admit that one or two books is an insufficient sample, to make any firm judgment on the author's work. I've long wanted to read Dahl's n  Fantastic Mr. Foxn, perhaps I'll try that next?

Great story and writing, but bad illustrations. I've never cared for Quentin Blake's art style; even as a kid, I preferred the edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that was not illustrated by him.

The storytelling is great but this definitely shows it's age. I wouldn't be doing 2019 justice if I didn't mention the racially insensitive vibe, or how everything was so weirdly divided by very odd boy|girl stereotypes.

Although sometimes I would get lost in the whimsical writing, there were times when the adultness (maturity) of the narrative would break in on my child-like enjoyment of the book. The BFG by Roald Dahl is ostensibly a children's fantasy book that can be read with adult eyes to capitalize(?) on the double-entendre nature of some of the situations. Setting that aside, I enjoyed it very much as a children's book, when I was a child and even when I read it as an adult to my children. The interesting thing is that I have always been able to separate the human flaws of the writer with the flawlessness of the writing so I get to enjoy the work for what it means to me, and not for what it could mean to others.

Not that the BFG is perfect. It is not, but to me, this is a children's horror story. I could not tell you how many nightmares I had after reading the BFG with its nine cannibal giants, Chitty, Chitty Bang-Bang with its child-catcher, and the Wizard of Oz with the flying monkeys. All of these were supposed children's stories that I read for the horrific monsters that were freed by my imagination. Dahl has many monsters in his books. Sophie is the wonderful protagonist of this novel. She is an orphan abducted from the orphanage one night by a Big Friendly Giant and learns about nine other giants that abduct, kill, and eat people every night. Along with the BFG, she decides to do something about it. Really fine writing.