In 2012, the novel was ranked number 88 among all-time best children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal, a US monthly. In 2003, The BFG was listed at number 56 in The Big Read, a BBC survey of the British public. A theatrical Disney live-action adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg was released in 2016.Īs of 2009, the novel has sold 37 million copies, with more than 1 million copies sold around the world every year.
It has also been adapted as a theatre performance. Īn animated adaptation was released in 1989 with David Jason providing the voice of the BFG and Amanda Root as the voice of Sophie. The book is dedicated to Dahl's late daughter, Olivia, who died of measles encephalitis at the age of seven in 1962.
It is an expansion of a short story from Dahl's 1975 book Danny, the Champion of the World. The BFG (short for The Big Friendly Giant) is a 1982 children's book written by British novelist Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.
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