Sophie tries a piece of snozzcumber, too. The BFG is not a snozzcumber fan, but it’s the only vegetable that grows in Giant Country, and he doesn’t believe in stealing food from humans. The BFG is hungry, so he eats some of a bumpy, spiky vegetable called a snozzcumber. Every night, he uses his trumpet to blow good dreams into children’s bedrooms. Oh, and his other secret: he’s a dream-blowing giant. You’d think that would be distracting when he’s having a conversation, but it seems to work out okay. He can hear ladybugs walking and ants talking to each other. His giant ears, it turns out, are not just for comic effect. Like how the BFG found her when she was hiding in bed. So she keeps her cool and asks him a bunch of questions. On the other hand, since she’s from a terrible orphanage, she’s not in a big hurry to return, either. Surprisingly, Sophie isn’t too into that idea. He tells Sophie she’ll have to live with him forever, so that she’ll never tell the world about giants. And he has a point: that’s probably just what would happen. He’s pretty scared of the human world finding out about giants and putting him in a zoo. So if he wasn’t looking for a snack, why did the Big Friendly Giant kidnap Sophie? Simple enough: because she saw him. In other words, he’s the only giant who doesn’t do that kind of thing. She begs the giant not to eat her, and after the giant gets sidetracked, talking about the many ways giants like to eat humans, he reveals that he is the Big Friendly Giant. When he puts her down, she’s on the giant table in a cave. Not your average middle-of-the-night experience. The giant sticks his hand into her window, lifts her up, and carries her to a different world. She runs back into her bed, but guess what? It’s too late. She peeks out the window of her bedroom, which is in an orphanage, and sees a giant blowing what looks like a trumpet into the window across the street. Probably not the best time to poke around (if you’re a human), but that’s what a little girl named Sophie is up to. Our story begins during the Witching Hour, a time of night when humans are asleep and creatures from the shadows get to roam the world.

The bfg book