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1) The BFG
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Kidsnatched from her orphange 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.
Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater, the Bonecruncher,...
2) Muncle Trogg
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Bullied and despised for being human-sized, a young giant demonstrates his bravery and cleverness in a series of adventures.
3) Mangaboom
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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English
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Daniel meets a giant named Mangaboom who lives in a mango tree and takes him to tea at her auntie's house.
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Heroes of Olympus volume 3
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English
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"The Greek and Roman demigods will have to cooperate in order to defeat the giants released by the Earth Mother, Gaea. Then they will have to sail together to the ancient land--Greece itself--to find the Doors of Death"--
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In this humorous version of the traditional tale, Jack's magic beanstalk produces so many beans that soon everyone in the village is sick of eating them, and mad at Jack, and when he climbs the beanstalk he finds that Mr. Giant is equally fed up with beans -- but fortunately Mrs. Giant suggests a solution to their diet problem.
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202 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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When Rudi Bauer sets out for town one morning to trade, he never dreams that Susanna Louisa will sell his family's cow -- for magic beans, no less! But that's exactly what she does, and the consequences will be disastrous unless Rudi can return the magic beans to their rightful owner, the evil witch of Petz. The journey to Petz is long and hard, but Rudi and Susanna Louisa soon find a shortcut: a magically sprouted beanstalk leads them straight there...and...
12) Wilfred
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
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English
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When Wilfred, a big, hairy, and lonesome giant, enters a town full of tiny bald people, he finds only one friend but that proves to be enough when the other townspeople trick him out of his warm hair.
14) Giant steps
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Five giants play a global game of tag, and while the first four run just as far as they can go, north, south, east, and west, the unlucky fifth giant has to count.
18) Abiyoyo returns
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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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.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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English
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Six-year-old Lexy Tanz loves dancing so much that she wants to share her skills with others, and when she is becoming discouraged because no one wants lessons from a girl so small, a herd of hairy giants arrives to test her teaching ability.
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 cm
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English
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Hilda finds her world turned upside down as she faces the prospect of leaving her snow-capped birthplace for the hum of the megalopolis. Her mother, an architect, has been offered a prestigious position in the bustling metropolis that she would find hard to reject. Besides, the tiny elven creatures making a daily habit of bombarding them with threats isn't making Hilda's case any better. As she seeks ways to stall her mother's decision, Hilda rushes...
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