My son read this book multiple times while in elementary school, and I finally got around to reading it myself.
The Big Friendly Giant's unusual vocabulary makes for super fun reading, especially for reading aloud. The story is a fairy tale complete with giants, an orphan with access to the Queen of England, and a happy ending.
Concerned parents may want to know that the BFG is the only giant who does not eat humans (the BFG pronounces "cannibal" as "cannybull"), and the story is about how the orphan Sophie and the BFG work together to stop the other giants from eating humans. There is an interesting bit of social commentary when the BFG questions how Sophie can judge giants for eating humans when humans themselves kill other humans and eat other animals.
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