Book Review: The BFG by Roald Dahl

Book: The BFG
Series: N/A
Author: Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake  (Illustrator)
Edition: Hardcover
Pages: 221
Published: 1982
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (BYR)
Genres: Childrens, Classics, Fantasy

Summary:

Sophie is an orphan girl who wakes up in the middle of the night to find a giant. The Big Friendly Giant (BFG) kidnaps Sophie to Giant Country. They become fast friends, and the BFG shows Sophie how he collects dreams and gives them to people.

My Thoughts:

This was a great pick-me-up after the intense story of Outlander. It was really cute and it made me happy while I read it. I mean I enjoyed reading this at 16 so that's saying something. I loved the friendship between Sophie and the BFG. They immediately began to trust each other once Sophie found out he wasn't going to eat her!

The made up words were a little excessive at times but I think if I read this to kids, they would find some of the words humorous.

I loved reading about the dreams that the BFG caught. It was actually really interesting to read of the different dreams of the most bizarre things you could think of.

The BFG is also more knowledgeable of society than most humans seem to be:

"They is shootling guns and going up in aerioplanes to drop their bombs on each other's heads every week. Human beans is always killing other human beans."

And yes, that's how the BFG talks the whole book. But that sentence is very relevant to our world today, and most people need to hear it.

By the end, I realized I had really enjoyed the book. The ending was bittersweet and I'll probably be reading Dahl's other famous classics.

I gave this book a 4/5 stars.

★★★★☆