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Author
Series
Heroes in training volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
When ten-year-old Zeus is kidnapped, he discovers he can defend himself with a magical thunderbolt.
5) Rude giants
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Beatrix the butter maid saves Gerda the cow and transforms two rude giants into good neighbors.
6) Giant steps
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
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.
7) Dragon Day
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Dragons don't have birthdays--they have Dragon Days! Once a year, young Dragonlarks become Dragons, and learn to fly. There are big celebrations, games, and contests all day and prizes at night. Will you win a race, or grab a piece of the gobblin cake? Maybe this will be your last year as a little Dragonlark. YOU choose what happens next.--P. [4] of cover.
9) Bath party!
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Norville the dragon is covered in mud, but does not like baths, so Gina and Wally plan a bath party to get him clean.
12) Way back then
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Inuktitut
Description
Uses the format of a sweet and simple bedtime story written in both English and Inuktitut, to introduce readers to several myths from Inuit mythology.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A fictionalized biography of Ella Kate Ewing, born in 1872, who was eight feet tall by the age of seventeen and who became financially independent by traveling the country for nearly twenty years appearing at museums, exhibitions, and in circus shows.
14) Calamity Jack
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Dragon Slayers' Academy volume 19
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Wiglaf and his friends are on a mission to rescue Worm, the dragon they have raised from an egg, and are surprised to learn that the captor is not a gang of dragon slayers, but rather a young giantess who wants to keep Worm as her house pet.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When Jack, a poor boy, trades some of his homemade bean pies for magic beans, they lead him to a strange new world above the clouds where he must must rely on his wits and cooking skills to avoid being eaten by giants. Includes puzzles and notes for adults.
Author
Series
Riders of the realm volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Storm Herd will have to join forces with the humans they have long-feared to save Rahkki and defeat the giants"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The Dragon Masters are still reeling from the desertion of Rori and her fire dragon Vulcan, when Mina, a Dragon Master from the far north, arrives with a problem--King Lars needs a fire dragon to defeat the Ice Giant who has frozen his kingdom; and so the Dragon Masters set out to find Rori and convince her to help.
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