<p>A magical story that weaves together fifty world tales, by a renowned poet, and illustrated by 2002 Greenaway Medal winner Chris Riddell. 'One day a story fell from heaven and landed on a giant's tongue! ' The Story Giant is a master illusionist and the ur-storyteller. In his memory exists every tale ever told in the world -- except for one, which has eluded him for millennia. In a last desperate attempt to track down this lost tale, he draws four children from the different corners of the globe into his castle while they sleep, there to exchange the tales they know from their own cultures, to see if between them they can piece together the elusive missing story. For if he cannot track it down and install it in his memory, the whole facade of the castle will crumble and fall, and the Story Giant himself will die. And if he does, so will all the stories, and the world will be a poorer, duller, grimmer place. Fifty tales are told within this magical framework in Brian Patten's inimitable style -- from Brer Rabbit to the tale of how St George killed the Dragon (except it wasn't St George -- it was his mother, with a pudding!) but none of them is the missing tale. The castle falls; the giant dies. But all is not lost -- the four children dream themselves back to the ruins to concoct the missing tale themselves!</p>

The Story Giant

Brian Patten

Harper Collins Childs

Story Giant

Children's Books

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Collins

A collection of poetry casting light upon the world we live in, and upon the darker corners of the self. The book tries to make sense of a world which is chaotic with unemployment, in-and-out affairs, street violence, hip vicars and terrorism among many other themes.

Storm Damage

Nicholas Georgiou

Harpercollins

The irrelevant song

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Allen& Unwin

Vanishing trick

G. Allen & Unwin

Vanishing Trick

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Mr. Moon's Last Case

Penguin Portable Poets: Brian Patten, Roger McGough, Kit Wright (Puffin Poetry)

roger-mcgough

Kit Wright

Puffin Books

Gargling With Jelly : A Collection of Poems

Puffin

Gargling with Jelly: A Collection of Poems (Puffin Poetry)

PUFFIN POETRY

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