The BFG

Title: The BFG

Author: Roald Dahl

Illustrator: Quentin Blake

Summary: The book is about a young little girl named Sophie who lives in an orphanage. One day, she spots a giant in the street, and she runs to hide from this giant scary creature. The creature finds Sophie and takes her from her room. The little girl is so scared because she thinks she is going to get eaten by this giant figure she has never seen before. The giant tells Sophie that he does not eat humans and that he won't hurt her if she doesn't leave. She now has to stay with the giant for the rest of her life because Sophie can't tell anyone else about the giant. The book goes on with the Big Friendly Giant and Sophie having lots of adventures together.

This book was quite interesting for me to read for the first time. First off, the book starts off with a giant capturing a little girl and taking her to a whole different place for the rest of her life. To me, that just seems weird. Some children might not even think about the BFG taking Sophie being scary, but some children might get scared reading the book. I give this book a 1/5, I just didn't like it and would not have this book in my library for younger students.