Roald Dahl

Paperback

214 Pages

Penguin Random House UK

Imagine waking up in the dead of night to find a colossal hand reaching through your bedroom window...

On a dark, silvery moonlit night, this terrifying nightmare becomes a reality for young Sophie when she is suddenly snatched from her orphanage bed by a towering figure.

Luckily for Sophie, her kidnapper is none other than the Big Friendly Giant, or the BFG. Unlike the horrifying monsters of legend, the BFG is a gentle, secret-keeping soul who catches dreams in jars. He absolutely refuses to harm humans, surviving instead on a stomach-churning diet of slimy snozzcumbers while happily glugging down fizzy, upward-burping frobscottle.

But Giant Country is a treacherous place, and the BFG is the runt of the litter. Just outside his cave roam nine other fifty-foot brutes fearsome nightmares like the Bloodbottler and the Fleshlumpeater. These colossal beasts have no interest in snozzcumbers. Instead, they gallop far and wide into the human world every single night to find tasty "human beans" to eat.

Now, an extraordinary friendship is about to spark the most daring adventure of all time. Can tiny Sophie and her gentle giant friend formulate a brilliant, magical plan to stop these bloodthirsty monsters once and for all?

Let's hope so. Because if they fail, the next child a gruesome giant guzzles could be YOU.