Empire State Building - James and the Giant Peach - New York City, NY - Literary Sites on Waymarking.com

Wikipedia (visit link) informs us about the plot:

"The plot centres on a young English orphan boy who enters a gigantic, magical peach, and has a wild and surreal cross-world adventure with seven magically-altered garden bugs he meets. They set off on a journey to escape from James' two mean and cruel aunts. Roald Dahl was originally going to write about a giant cherry, but changed it to James and the Giant Peach because a peach is "prettier, bigger and squishier than a cherry."

and continues with the specifics about the Empire State Building:

"A huge passenger jet flies past the giant peach, and severs the silken strings connecting the seagulls to the peach, which is then impaled upon the tip of the Empire State Building. The people on the 86th floor at first believe the inhabitants of the giant peach to be monsters or extraterrestrials; but when James explains his story, the people hail James and his friends as heroes. The remains of the giant peach are brought down to the streets, where it is consumed by the town's children, and its seed is established as a mansion in Central Park, where James lives, while his friends establish careers in the human world. In conclusion, James is said to have written the preceding story."

Short Description: In author Roald Dahl's children's book "James and the Giant Peach", the "Peach" is impaled on top of the Empire State Building. Book Title: James and the Giant Peach" First Year Published: 1961 Author's Name: Roald Dahl Name of Waymarked Item: Empire State Building Location of Item: New York City, NY More Information: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Building Link to more information about the book or waymarked item.: [Web Link] Admission Price?: Not Listed

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