The Foolish Giant (Lippincott I-Like-To-Read Book) - Hardcover

Coville, Bruce; Coville, Katherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0397318006 ISBN 13: 9780397318001

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1978

Synopsis

A not-very-bright giant named Harry outsmarts a wicked wizard who tries to turn his friends into stone toads

About this title

About the Author:

BRUCE COVILLE has been a teacher, a toymaker, a magazine editor, a gravedigger, and a cookware salesman. Additionally, he has published over 100 books for children and young adults, including the international bestseller My Teacher is an Alien, the four book Unicorn Chronicles series, and Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher. In 2001 he created FULL CAST AUDIO, an audiobook company devoted to producing full cast, unabridged recordings of material for family listening. Much in demand as a speaker and storyteller, he has performed on five continents. KATHERINE COVILLE is an artist, a sculptor, and a dollmaker who once made a dollhouse inside an acorn. She has illustrated more than thirty books, including twenty by her husband Bruce, among them the Space Brat series, the Moongobble and Me series, and Goblins in the Castle. In 2015 she published her first novel, The Cottage in the Woods, which Publisher's Weekly called Clever, heartwarming fantasy and Booklist praised as A delightful, multidimensional narrative. The Covilles live in Syracuse, New York. The Foolish Giant was their first book

From Publishers Weekly:

Banned from his town for constantly--inadvertently--causing trouble, Harry the giant finally gets his chance to help by defeating an evil wizard. PW termed the lovable tale "a treat for beginning readers and grand make-believe." Ages 3-7.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0397318006
• ISBN 13: 9780397318001
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 46