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Alice wishes for something really big and special for her birthday, but what she gets is not what she had hoped for
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Kindergarten-Grade 3-- Alice wakes up on her birthday to find a cyclops in her room. He is as surprised as she is, and the two attempt to send him home. After he makes a shambles of her birthday party, she takes him to the library where the librarian recites spells from a book of magic incantations. He disappears just as the men with the nets arrive. Alice closes her birthday with the giant's promise to return the following year. Kovalski's cheerful cartoons in bright pastel shades and tints create a cast of appealing-looking characters. The cyclops wears rubber flip-flops and a too-small T-shirt that doesn't cover his belly button. Alice is a skinny-legged little girl who can't keep her socks up. The librarian is the only adult to remain undaunted by the cyclops, gazing at him with interest. There are, however, weak spots in the text. Small Alice sleeps all night in her clothes on the living room sofa without her parents noticing, and they run away and leave her to deal with the giant on her own. The illustrations are amusing, but the story is less successful. --Ruth Semrau, Lovejoy School, Allen, TX
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Alice & the Birthday Giant
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Scholastic, Incorporated, 1990, 1990
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Alice and the Birthday Giant
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Kovalski, Maryann (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st/1st. DJ is protected by Brodart mylar, has light scuffing otherwise like new. Alice wishes for something really big and special for her birthday, but what she gets isn't what she'd hoped for. Illustrated by Maryann Kovalski. Seller Inventory # 1145