Summary

The BFG by Roald Dahl is the story of the friendship between an orphaned girl and a Big Friendly Giant. Sophie is an eight-year-old girl who lives in an orphanage. She’s a curious little girl, and on one sleepless night she meets the BFG as he steals quietly through the town blowing dreams into the windows of children. The two form a friendship that ultimately leads them to overcome what makes them feel different from the rest of the world and to conquer their fears as they seek to rid the world of human-eating giants.

In the first chapter, The Witching Hour, Sophie is lying quietly in her bed in the orphanage unable to sleep as a particularly bright moonbeam shines through a gap in the curtains. The night is very quiet and she is...