Welcome to the giant peach!
Jump, jump, jumpity, jump… Jump, jump, OUCH! I shouldn’t be doing that, I’m very old! Oh! No, no, don’t be afraid! I’m not going to eat you, children! Yes, I might be a giant grasshopper, but I only like the taste of peaches and other fruits!
I'm known as the Old-Green Grasshopper, but you can call me just Grasshopper. Simple, right? Me and my other friends were tiny, microscopic insects, but some strange magic happened and now we are huge. Bigger than most humans, in fact! And we all live in the heart of a giant peach. With James. Oh, poor, poor James!
I’m sure you already know. Yes, yes, children are disappearing, and adults are afraid to disappear to! They think we are responsible for that, but we wouldn’t hurt any human! We promise! But the witches are! They also took our poor James… Even my friends are scared. Of coure, I'm talking about other giant insects!
“An insect is usually something rather small, is it not? A grasshopper, for example, is an insect.
So, what would you call it if you saw a grasshopper as large as a dog? As large as a large dog. You could hardly call that an insect, could you? There was an Old-Green-Grasshopper as large as a large dog sitting on a stool directly across the room from James now. And next to the Old-Green-Grasshopper, there was an enormous Spider. And next to the Spider, there was a giant Ladybug with nine black spots on her scarlet shell. Each of these three was squatting upon a magnificent chair. On a nearby sofa, reclining comfortably in curled-up positions, there was a Centipede and an Earthworm. On the floor, over in the far corner, there was something thick and white that looked as though it might be a Silkworm. But it was sleeping soundly and nobody was paying any attention to it.”
Click on the image to meet the insect gang!
I’m the only one willing to help you. My other friends are very scared, even though they are also giant insects, and as I’m the oldest and the most experienced, it’s been my turn. I’ll tell you the plan: we’ll try to use the cloning machine to make our own army of aunts. Hopefully, we will create so many aunts that the machine will break. Then, we let our aunts fight Spiker and Sponge clones. As they are all clones, they won’t die, they will become smoke! It’s a wonderful plan, isn’t it?
Well, follow me. I know the direction to the cloning machine! Just push… The red button, of course!
That's not the sun, that's the Giant Peach!
We want to save James, and all the children as well, but we can’t do anything! Not now, that the witches have brought back aunts Spiker and Sponge! Oh, right, maybe you don’t know who they are, do you? They are James's aunts, and we used to live in their garden. They tried to kill us (when we were tiny) so many times… We thought they disappeared, but now they are back. And not only them. There are at least ten Spikers and ten Sponges!
Yes, the witches invented something they call Aunt Cloning Machine. They found out aunt Spiker and aunt Sponge were the most horrible human beings in the world, so they decided to clone them. And now it’s our turn. We must disconnect that machine or, at least, we must break it. It’s not going to be easy, but we need to try.
