ENGLISH:

-James Henry Trotter – The seven-year-old male protagonist.-Miss Spider – A good-natured female spider who takes care of James.-The Centipede – A male centipede, depicted as a boisterous rascal and proud of his 'hundred legs', even though he only has 42.-The Old Green Grasshopper – A male grasshopper, who is the eldest and most cultured of the bugs.-The Ladybug – A kind, motherly female ladybird.-The Earthworm – A male earthworm who often quarrels with the Centipede

Set in the summer of 1948, James Henry Trotter is a boy who lives happily with his parents in a house by the sea in the south of England. When he is four years old, an oddly carnivorous raging rhinoceros escapes from London Zoo and eats James' parents whilst they are on a shopping trip in the capital. He ends up in the care of his two cruel aunts, Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge, who physically and verbally abuse him, isolate him in their ramshackle hilltop house and garden, dole out sadistic punishments for the smallest infractions, force him to sleep on bare floorboards in a prison cell-like room, and force him to do heavy chores most of the time that they never bother doing themselves (instead of by his real name, they call him insults like you disgusting little beast or you miserable creature).

One day, after James has been living with his aunts for three years, when he's sent behind a clump of laurel bushes for only requesting a day trip to the seaside, he meets a mysterious man who gives him a bag of magical crystals, instructing James to use them in a potion that would change his life for the better. While returning home, James stumbles and spills the bag on the ground, losing the crystals as they dig themselves underground next to a nearby barren peach tree. Immediately, the tree, in turn, produces a single peach which soon grows to the size of a house. The next day, Spiker and Sponge build a fence around it and earn money by selling viewing tickets to tourists; James is locked in the house, only able to see the peach and the crowds through the bars of his bedroom window.

After the tourists have gone, James is assigned to clean the rubbish around the peach and finds a hole inside it. He crawls in, through a tunnel, and he finds himself in a room, in the enlarged peach pit, where he meets Centipede, Miss Spider, Old Green Grasshopper, Earthworm, Ladybug, Glowworm, and Silkworm who become his friends and express their dreams of leaving Spiker and Sponge's hill as their lives, like James', have been made miserable by the two aunts.

The next day, Centipede cuts the stem of the peach, causing it to roll away and crush James' aunts to death. After leaving behind a trail of minor destruction (including crashing through a chocolate factory), it reaches the sea and is surrounded by ravenous sharks. James uses Miss Spider and Silkworm to make threads, while Earthworm is used as bait and draws 501 seagulls[7] to the peach, whereupon the threads are tied on their necks. The peach is lifted off the water. High above the clouds, during the journey, while James learns about his friends' lives before they encountered each other, the Centipede accidentally falls overboard, but gets rescued by James.

As night falls, the peach encounters the Cloud-Men, who are portrayed as responsible for weather phenomena like hailstorms and rainbows. Centipede mocks the Cloud-Men, who throw things at the group until they get clear. The peach briefly gets entangled in the ropes holding up a rainbow, making a Cloud-Man jump onto one of the seagull strings, which the Centipede cuts loose. In retaliation for the loss of one of their friends, the Cloud-Men hurl cans of rainbow paint, which coat the Centipede in fast drying rainbow paint that freezes him into a statue. Afterwards, the travelers barely escape the Cloud-Men's faucets that make the rain, which frees the Centipede. Almost before dawn, as they leave the Cloud-Men's homes behind, the group briefly encounters a giant bat.

As morning finally dawns, James sees that the group has reached New York City and arranges for some seagulls to be let loose for them to land. After doing so, however, the wing of a passing plane severs the rest of the strings, and the falling peach lands on the spire of the Empire State Building. It is mistaken for a bomb at first and then a spaceship, resulting in the arrival of police and firemen. Calming the crowd, James tells his story, and becomes friends with many children in New York; they eat the peach and James and his friends get their own jobs, now residing in Central Park, in the pit of the peach. As James gets many requests to tell about his adventures on the giant peach, he resolves to write a book about it and does so, revealing to the reader that they have just finished reading the very book.

EACH MODEL COMES WITH A PERSONAL BASE AND A PEACH STAND

Z: 200mm.