Which Roald Dahl novel is set around a giant peach?

The Roald Dahl novel set around a giant peach is James and the Giant Peach.

The story follows James Henry Trotter, an orphan who lives with his cruel aunts, Spiker and Sponge. After a strange magical incident, an ordinary peach grows to enormous size. James enters it and meets anthropomorphic insects, including a Grasshopper, Ladybug, Spider, and Centipede.

The giant peach rolls and travels across the landscape before eventually reaching New York City. The journey gives James a new family and a dramatic escape from his unhappy home life. Dahl combined fantasy adventure with comic exaggeration and deliberately grotesque characters.

The novel was Dahl’s first major children’s book, but its exact publication date is sometimes reported differently because British and American editions appeared at different times. The title, characters, and giant peach remain consistent across editions and adaptations.