James and the Giant Peach

This coming May our first grade class will have the opportunity to go to The Rose Theater in Omaha, Nebraska http://www.rosetheater.org/ to see a production of James and the Giant Peach.  To prepare in class we are reading the novel and creating a story timeline and writing and illustrating our chapter summaries in our journals.  We have just started the book, but already they are asking at every free moment for me to read more.  We can't wait to find out what kind of adventures James and his friends will go on.