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The Giants And The Joneses Hardcover – 1 September 2005
Julia Donaldson (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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- Print length215 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHenry Holt Books for Young Readers
- Publication date1 September 2005
- Dimensions14.12 x 2.32 x 18.64 cm
- ISBN-100805078053
- ISBN-13978-0805078053
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- Publisher : Henry Holt Books for Young Readers (1 September 2005)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 215 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0805078053
- ISBN-13 : 978-0805078053
- Dimensions : 14.12 x 2.32 x 18.64 cm
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About the author

Julia Donaldson is a top selling author of children’s books with over 65 million books sold worldwide. Among her greatest successes are Room on the Broom, The Gruffalo and Stick Man (all illustrated by Axel Scheffler), What the Ladybird Heard (illustrated by Lydia Monks) and The Giant Jumperee (illustrated by Helen Oxenbury). Julia’s books have been translated into over 72 languages.
Julia lives in the UK with her husband Malcolm and divides her time between Sussex in the South and Edinburgh in Scotland. From 2011 to 2013, she was the UK Children’s Laureate. Julia writes fiction, poems, plays and songs, as well as picture books. The TV films of The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom have both been nominated for Oscars.
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The story features an invented language for the giants, with a glossary at the back. (Although for us, reading on a Kindle, we didn't really see this until the end.) Most of the words are guessable in context anyway, and when there are whole songs or sayings in the giant language, the English translation is given in the main text. This language is fun, playful and inventive, and I'm sure most child readers will bring some of the giants' words into their play as my daughter did.
For all the excitement and adventure, there is a moral core to this story which encourages children to think before making pets or toys of wild creatures. Children will not experience this as moralising, but they will absorb the messages about how the children are treated by Jumbelia, who doesn't mean them any harm, but also doesn't quite see them as living creatures who can be hurt.
Overall, I'd recommend this for fans of Donaldson's picture books who are ready to move onto chapter books at bedtime. For the more delicate among them, though, her Princess Mirror-Belle adventures might be more suitable.

It's a great story, and good to read something unusual.


