James And The Giant Peach

They lived-Aunt Sponge, Aunt Spiker, and now James as well -in a queer ramshakle house on top of a high hill in the south of England. The hill was so high that from almost anywhere in the garden James could see for miles and miles across a marvellous landscape of woods and fields; and on a very clear day, if he looked in the right direction , he could see a tiny gray dot which was the house he used to live in with his beloved mother and father.And just beyond that, he could see the ocean itself-a long thin streak of blackish-blue, like a line ofink. beneath the rim of the sky.