The BFG

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Information

Information on identifying editions is from Richard Walker’s “Roald Dahl – A Guide to Collecting His First Editions”.

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Description

The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It’s lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants—rather than the BFG—she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are flush-bunking off to England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!


Reviews


Awards

  • Federation of Children’s Book Groups Award (UK 1982)
  • Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis (Germany 1984)
  • International Board on Books for Young People awards for Norwegian and German translations (1986)
  • Good Book Guide “Best Books of the Past 20 Years” (UK 1997)

Articles


Criticism and Analysis


Fun Stuff

The BFG Quiz
The BFG Trivia Quiz
My Visit to Gipsy House
Me with the real-life BFG from my visit to Gipsy House

Merchandise


Teacher Ideas


Covers


Penguin Readers Covers

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. Simplified story texts are combined with beautiful original illustrations for students aged 7 and above.


Afrikaans Covers – Die Groot Sagmoedige Reu


Bulgarian Covers – ГДВ


Catalan Covers – El gran amic gegant


Croatian Covers – BFG – Blagi Fantastični Gorostas


Czech Covers – obrDobr


Dutch Covers – De GVR


Estonian Covers – Suur Sõbralik Hiiglane


French Covers – Le Bon Gros Géant


German Covers – Sophiechen und der Riese


Greek Covers – Ο ΜΦΓ-Ο ΜΕΓΑΛΟΣ ΦΙΛΙΚΟΣ ΓΙΓΑΝΤΑΣ


Italian Covers – Il Grande Gigante Gentile


Korean Covers – 내 친구 꼬마 거인


Lithuanian Covers – DGM


Norwegian Covers – Stor Vennlig Kjempe


Russian Covers – БДВ, или Большой и Добрый Великан


Scots Covers – The Guid Freendly Giant


Serbian Covers – VDDŽ


Slovakian Covers – Kamoš obor


Slovenian Covers – VDV – Veliki dobrodušni velikan


Spanish Covers – El Gran Gigante Bonachón


Swedish Covers – Stora Vänliga Jätten


Turkish Covers – Koca Sevimli Dev


Ukrainian Covers – ВДВ, або Великий Дружній Велетень


Vietnamese Covers – Sophie và tên khổng lồ


Welsh Covers – Yr Cmm