James and the Giant Peach

1. Aunt Sponge

1.1. overboiled cabbages

1.2. clothes too small

1.3. self involved

1.4. oddly shaped mirrors

1.5. long fingermails

1.6. ugly sisters

1.7. frumpy, unfahionable

1.8. beat him

1.9. bitter

1.10. obsessed with making money

1.11. mean

1.12. lower class

1.13. ramshackle house

1.14. isolated

1.15. layers makeup

1.16. greasey hair?

1.17. Absolutely fabulous

2. General

2.1. south of england

2.2. ends in New York

2.3. written in 60s

2.4. 1930s?

2.5. near coast, white cliffs of Dover

2.6. Summer season

2.7. Spans over a few days

3. Mother + Father

3.1. warm

3.2. middle class?

3.3. escaped rhino from London Zoo

3.4. well dressed and suit, matching outfits, prim

4. Aunt Spiker

4.1. shoulder pads

4.2. pimple on her nose

4.3. harsh fabrics

4.4. mutton dressed as lamb

4.5. "bones and skin

4.6. brains of the two, bit more controlling

4.7. Pratt sisters Lark rise to candleford

4.8. men playing women, Mis Trunchball

5. Little Old Man

5.1. rags

5.2. homeless

5.3. timeless

5.4. mysterious

5.5. odd shoes

5.6. crazy

5.7. Willy Wonker

5.8. magical

5.9. Wacky

5.10. is he real?? James' imagination

5.11. Witches and wizards

6. James Trotter

6.1. 4 when parents died, 8 in book

6.2. remembers his parents

6.3. small and underfed

6.4. resourceful

6.5. Oliver twist

6.6. positive

6.7. ill fitting clothes, school uniform, tatty, dirty

6.8. hand me downs, made them to fit

6.9. lonely, longs to play with other children

6.10. brainwashed by aunts

6.11. dreamer