“ Human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.” One dark, silvery moonlit night, Sophie is snatched from her bed by a giant! Luckily it is the Big Friendly Giant (the BFG), who is no ordinary bone-crunching giant, but instead prefers snozzcumbers & frobscottle to children. But there are other giants in Giant Country. & those giants have a plan to gallop far & wide to find some tasty human beans to eat. Can Sophie & the BFG stop them? The text in this edition of The BFG was updated in 2022 for young independent readers.