Are All the Giants Dead? - Softcover

Norton, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 015201523X ISBN 13: 9780152015237

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1997

Synopsis

James, a young English boy, journeys to the fairy-tale world of princes and princesses, witches and fairies, giants and giant-killers, and invades the lair of the last giant to free a princess from an evil spell. “Here is a bright successor to Bed-Knob and Broomstick and the Borrowers books. Coupled with the inspired pictures, the story is witty, exciting, and most unusual.”--Publishers Weekly

About this title

Book Description:

A powerful and intellectually stimulating teenage love story.

About the Author:

Mary Norton spent much of her childhood in a late Georgian house which later became the model for Firbank Hall in 'The Borrowers'. For a year she acted at the Old Vic before getting married and going to live in Portugal. During the Second World War she was evacuated to New York and struggled to support herself and her four children while her husband was in the Navy. It was then that she began to write, and in 1945 her first children's books, 'The Magic Bedknob' and 'Bonfires and Broomsticks' later combined in a single volume, 'Bedknob and Broomstick' was published. These were followed in 1952 by 'The Borrowers', which was awarded the Carnegie Medal, and three other titles 'The Borrowers Afield', 'The Borrowers Afloat' and 'The Borrowers Aloft'.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 015201523X
• ISBN 13: 9780152015237
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Froud Brian