The BFG uses lots of made up words. Can you think of some more and say what they mean? Could you make a dictionary / glossary for your words? 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 : Kudos, Mr. Dahl for keeping me excited throughout this piece. I could not have found a better way to spend a few hours and hope to introduce these to Neo before too long.

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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. Chapters 6-11: The Giants, The Marvellous Ears, Snozzcumbers, The Bloodbottler, and Frobscottle and Whizzpoppers In Roald Dahl’s book, The BFG visits humans and collects their dreams. He stores them in magical jars to keep them safe and is always on the lookout for more.Well, that is the nicest present anybody is ever giving me in my whole life!' cried the BFG. 'Are you sure you is not twiddling my leg?' 'Of course not,' Sophie said. 'I just love the way you talk.' 'How wondercrump!' cried the BFG, still beaming. 'How whoopsey-splunkers! How absolutely squiffling! I is all of a stutter.' 'Listen,' Sophie said. 'We don't have to eat snozzcumbers. In the fields around our village there are all sorts of lovely vegetables like cauliflowers and carrots. Why don't you get some of those next time you go visiting?' The BFG raised his great head proudly in the air. 'I is a very honourable giant,' he said. 'I would rather be chewing up rotsome snozzcumbers than snitching things from other people.' 'You stole me,' Sophie said. 'I did not steal you very much,' said the BFG, smiling gently. 'After all, you is only a tiny little girl.' 46

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Reading it as an adult, gives the book a slightly different flavour. For starters, the hilarious nature of the language is blatant. And it just feels funnier. I was invested in this as a child, I cared about the characters and I was worried about what could happen. Now it just seems all so ridiculous.Using the BFG theme is perfect for teaching topics that children might otherwise shy away from and find difficult. Our huge range of BFG activities and sheets range from drama activities to prepositional phrase skills. These are great to use in the classroom to whip up some confidence and creativity in children. Roald Dahl was always creative with his language so see if your class can replicate his amazing work. The BFG describes how he can hear plants and trees because they are alive? How do we know that they are alive? What life processes do they have? You are once again gobblefunking!' the Giant shouted. 'Don't do it! This is a serious and snitching subject. May I continue?' 'Please do,' Sophie said. 'Danes from Denmark is tasting ever so much of dogs,' the Giant went on. 'Of course,' Sophie said. 'They taste of great danes.' 'Wrong!' cried the Giant, slapping his thigh. 'Danes from Denmark is tasting doggy because they is tasting of labradors!' 'Then what do the people of Labrador taste of?' Sophie asked. 'Danes,' the Giant cried, triumphantly. 'Great danes!' 'Aren't you getting a bit mixed up?' Sophie said. 'I is a very mixed up Giant,' the Giant said. 'But I does do my best. And I is not nearly as mixed up as the other giants. I know one who gallops all the way to Wellington for his supper.' 25 Another niggling doubt about the book was the resolution with the giants being imprisoned in a giant pit, doomed to eat disgusting snozzcumbers for the rest of their lives. I think that Dahl was well-intentioned in including the conversation between the BFG and Sophie about how humans make their own rules, and giants make their own rules and that the rules don't coincide. When I got to this conversation, which included the the BFG basically telling Sophie that it was somewhat judgmental or short-sighted of her to immediately think of the other giants as bad, because humans, unlike giants, kill their own kind all the time, I thought that the story was incredibly promising. However, the story ended as they typically do, especially in "children's" literature, with the "bad" guys getting captured and the "good" guys living happily ever after without the moral ambiguity that Dahl touched upon in that one particular conversation between Sophie and the BFG. I think that it might have been more interesting if it was ever brought up that perhaps giants just eat humans just as humans eat bacon, sausage, and eggs, just as Sophie, the BFG, and the Queen did at the end of the story, and that perhaps the solution would be to respect all life, just as the BFG always had (before uncharacteristically eating all that bacon and sausage at the end of the novel) because he could hear the world's suffering. Instead, as I mentioned, the story has a more typical ending, and it is emotionally acceptable that the human-eating giants are imprisoned with disgusting food for the rest of their lives (and the Queen is humane for imprisoning them rather than killing them, to boot) only because Dahl portrays the giants as disgusting throughout the entire novel. Although the giants are portrayed as mean in the scene during which they toss around the BFG, emphasis is continuously on how the giants are "half-naked and disgusting" in their appearance and smell. Thus, emphasis is placed on their physical, rather than moral disgustingness, and to me, this is too reminiscent of the way that we vilify those who are different than us to justify our inhuman treatment of them. I grinned from ear to ear, I laughed out loud, and I even nodded in grave seriousness. These are the reactions The BFG had evoked from me.