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The BFG Chapter 23: The Author Summary

  • The BFG gets a ton of presents from all the world leaders, including an elephant, which for him is something like a puppy.
  • The Queen has a house built for the BFG in Windsor Great Park, with a cottage for Sophie built alongside it.
  • She also gives him the title of Royal Dream-Blower, and many children write to him, asking him to give them good dreams.
  • Tourists come from all over to watch the giants in the pit. One time, a group of drunk men climb the fence surrounding the pit and fall in. The giants eat them. A no trespassing sign is put up the next day, and everyone follows the rules after that. Thanks, drunk guys.
  • Sophie starts teaching the BFG to read. Eventually, he can write essays about his life, and Sophie encourages him to turn them into a book.
  • The Queen reads the book to her grandchildren, and then gets it published so other kids can read it. But the BFG is modest, so he puts a different author’s name on the book.
  • Guess what book he wrote? It’s this one. The whole time, the narrator was secretly the BFG. Who woulda thunk it with all those whizzpoppers whizzing by the whole time?