Penguin plans peachy Dahl celebration

Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Thu, 10/03/2011 - 15:15 James, Aunts Spiker and Sponge, as well as the Centipede, Ladybird and Earthworm will be celebrated this spring as Puffin publishes a 50th anniversary edition of Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach, and launches a mission to move the peach around the world. The full-colour, large format, paperback picturebook will be illustrated by Quentin Blake, who will also illustrate the new 50th anniversary logo which will appear on both the book and the standard black-and-white paperback edition. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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