The BFG
By Roald Dahl
Okay guys, I promise I have been reading non-kids books, but this week's book is kiddish again. This past week was the first week back to school for little since break. He ended up having 3.5 days extra due to the weather being so flipping cold, icy and so much snow. I was also out of town for a long weekend due a death in the family. I always think I will be able to read when I go on vacation or out of town, what have you. But it's never the case anymore. Normally I am chasing little humans and make sure everything is packed for four people, and if I'm not doing that I'm trying to be social because really normally if we go out if town it's to see family.
Well this past weekend it was just my sister and I driving back to Iowa and both of our respective families didn't come with us due to kids' school and due to the funeral. I still got no reading done, andI have literally no problem with it. We were where we wanted and needed to be for our family in a very difficult time in their life.
Back to the book at hand. We had started The BFG forever ago and ended up having to stop because between all of the weird made up words and the bigger giants eating kids our little guy was not really enjoying the story. I think those giants that were being to the BFG really scared the poop out of him to be honest.
Flash forward to early last week and little man got a bee in his bonnet that he wanted to watch the movie on Netflix. Mind you the movie adaptation has been on Netflix for what a year? Anyway he really wanted to watch it, but we explained that we had to finish the book before we watched the movie. Well every night at bedtime he wanted to read a few chapters and would become tearful when we had to stop for the night.
We finished the book on Friday and because I knew I would most likely be away from the family for a few days my husband came up with the idea we all could watch the movie in our jammies and stay up late. The kids really liked it and didn't really seem too scared of the really big giants. Our son turned off all the lights so it would be more like his beloved movie theater. I can honestly say I enjoyed the movie better than the book. I don't know if it was because we read it over such a long time or because all of the made up words but it just isn't my favorite of Dahl’s books. I loved Danny Champion of the World and James and the Giant Peach, which are both Dahl's books. I would recommend one of those books instead, but I'll probably be beaten up for this point of view.
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