giants

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Giant John

1964
Giant John enjoys working for the king and queen at the castle until his friends the fairies come looking for him and almost ruin everything.

The accidental hero

2011
Twelve-year-old Jack, freed from a dismal orphanage, makes his way to the elusive and impossible Imagine Nation, where a mentor saves him from dissection and trains him to use his superpower, despite the virus he carries that makes him a threat.

The lost island of Tamarind

2008
Thirteen-year-old Maya, who has spent her life at sea with her marine biologist parents, yearns for a normal life, but when a storm washes her parents overboard, life becomes anything but normal for Maya, her younger brother and baby sister, as they land at a mysterious, uncharted island filled with danger.

Thor's wedding day

by Thialfi, the goat boy
2008
Thialfi, the Norse thunder god's goat boy, tells how he inadvertently helped the giant Thrym to steal Thor's magic hammer, the lengths to which Thor must go to retrieve it, and his own assistance along the way.

Abiyoyo returns

2001
Based on a South African tale, this story tells what happens when a giant who had been banished from a town by a magician thirty years earlier is called back to save the town from flooding.

Abiyoyo

based on a South African Lullaby and folk story
1994
Banished from the town for making mischief, a little boy and his father are welcomed back when they find a way to make the dreaded giant Abiyoyo disappear.

The foolish giant

1978
The adventures of a not very bright but friendly giant named Harry.

Fee, fi, fo, fum

friendly and funny giants.
1969
Seven tales of giants from Ireland, Yugoslavia, Scotland, England, Africa, and from American Indian and Biblical sources.

Jack and the beanstalk

1985
Retells in verse the old tale of the boy who climbed a beanstalk, killed a giant, and won a fortune.

The giants go camping

1979
Five giants share the fun and surprises of a camping trip to the mountains.

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