The BFG Condition:Well Read The Guardian required extensive revisions

The Guardian required extensive revisions (and the publication of another book entirely -- Nights in Rodanthe)

too frightening

senseless crime — an elderly grocery owner killed by three stoned punks for nothing more than kicks and snacks

her crushes

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The BFG Condition:Well Read The Guardian required extensive revisionsCaptured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater, the Bonecruncher, or any of the other giants rather than the BFG she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that they are flush bunking off in England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop