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1) The BFG
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Language
English
Description
Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
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Language
English
Description
This simple and warm story is a fantasy about a 12-year old boy named Odd, a lucky name in Viking tradition, who has had two pretty rough years. But Odd has a kind heart and a positive attitude. Life took on a better light for Odd when he met three chatty animals - supposedly Viking gods sent by the Frost Giant.
3) Giant John
Author
Language
English
Description
Hired to perform odd jobs at the royal castle, Giant John's work pleases everyone until the musical fairies arrive and the friendly giant cannot resist the urge to dance.
11) The mightiest
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Series
Language
English
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Description
The Lion, the Bear, and the Elephant compete to see who can do the best job scaring a tiny old woman, but she has a surprise for them.
13) Big trouble
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Evil giants wreak havoc in Ardeep Forest, in a book where the reader's choices determine the ending of the story.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Description
It is not just the living who are prey to 1780s London's criminals and cutpurses. Corpses, too, are fair game -- dug up from fresh graves and sold to men of science for dissection. Dr. Thomas Silkstone's unscrupulous rival, Dr. John Hunter, has learned of the imminent death of eight-foot-tall Charles Byrne, known as the "Irish Giant," and is obsessed with obtaining the body for his research. When Dr. Hunter is implicated in the horrific murder of...
16) The giant
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Three lively little girls attempt to start a friendship with a lonely giant.
17) Rude giants
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Beatrix the butter maid saves Gerda the cow and transforms two rude giants into good neighbors.
18) Calamity Jack
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this graphic novel interpretation of "Jack and the beanstalk," Jack is a born schemer who climbs a magical beanstalk in the hope of exacting justice from a mean giant and gaining a fortune for his widowed mother, aided by some friends.