Icon class icon_class fas fa-quote-left icon_class_computed fas fa-quote-left Related content «pa:term»: Dealing with synonyms, alternative names, and identifiers Source Wikipedia Copyright information Text from Wikipedia and Wiktionary web pages quoted for educational purposes is subject to the Wikipedia Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike Licence Snippet kind INFO Keywords Webel Parsing Analysis Previous snippet Full quote The start of the book begins with an eight-year-old orphan girl named Sophie lying in bed ... URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_BFG Next snippet Related snippets The BFG (short for The Big Friendly Giant) is a 1982 children's book written by British novelist Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. When he sets Sophie down, she begins to plead for her life, believing that the giant will eat her. The giant laughs and explains that most giants do eat human beings (which he pronounces as "human beans") .. The giant then says that he will not eat her as he is the Big Friendly Giant, or BFG for short. Related snippets (backlinks) Visit also Visit also (backlinks) Flags