The BFG Blake, Quentin and Dahl, Roald

Every night at the witching hour, Sophie sees the giant outside her orphanage window. Before she can scream, a huge hand plucks her from her bed and carries her off to Giant Country. But this giant is different — the Big Friendly Giant catches dreams, bottles them like fireflies, and mixes them into wild concoctions. He speaks in a gloriumptious scramble of words and survives on snozzcumbers because, unlike the other giants, he refuses to eat humans. Together, Sophie and the BFG hatch a plan to stop the child-gobbling brutes terrorizing England, enlisting the Queen herself in their peculiar mission. Quentin Blake's scratchy, exuberant illustrations perfectly capture Dahl's mix of the grotesque and the tender. A modern classic that proves the biggest hearts sometimes come in the most unexpected packages. For anyone who ever felt small in a world run by bigger, meaner things.