Tall Stories

Three short stories and two poems featuring giants, from gruesome to gentle:

Quarrelsome brother giants, Grumble and Rumble, engage in a contest of strength to win the Prince of Pigs from an impoverished but cunning farmer What happens when giants get sneezes?A little boy named Ben befriends a lonely giant with insomnia and helps him to sleepAn invisible (giant) best friendA tale of how an ingenious kitchen boy's clever plan solves two problems in one - a discontented princess and a greedy giant.

Illustrated throughout with sumptuous, bright, detailed and fun illustrations by the author, John Patience.

 

One of the four books in the Happy Endings series of original fairytales by British author/illustrator, John Patience.