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Evan And The Giants

by and illustrated by Jacqueline Coldrick Carter

28 pages; Saddle stitched; catalogue #05-2658; ISBN 1-4120-7761-3; US$13.00, C$14.95, EUR10.68, £7.48

A lighthearted story with mythical medieval creatures: it tells of how a little boy solves the problem of three very rude giants.

About the Book

“Evan lived in a magical town
Where the sky changed colors
And the sun wore a crown”

The problem is there are three very rude motherless giants living above the town. It’s bad enough that they are loud and uncouth in their own domain, but they are litter bugs and throw large meat bones out of their windows and down into the town. The townsfolk are miserable but what can they do?

With his grandpa’s sword in hand, young Evan sets off to confront the giants. But when he arrives at the giants’ castle he finds it guarded, though half- heartedly, by a rather forlorn fire-breathing dragon chained to the giants’ front door. Feeling sorry for the beast, Evan cuts it’s chains. The grateful creature offers to give the boy a ride on its back and fly him to the home of “wee witch Alexandra” who, “will make our troubles right”. The little witch gives them a bottle from her “bottomless bag of magic”. They follow her instructions to fly over the giants and “shake out the bottle all over their heads”. The dismayed giants shrink down to child-size.

Evan becomes a hero and the former giants find a mother and become “well-behaved little boys”.

About the Author

Jacqueline Coldrick-Carter is English but born in Burma, her parents being the last of the British Raj. She was convent educated in England and survived the London Blitz during the Second World War.

After receiving diplomas from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the Royal Academy of Dancing, she toured Europe and the Middle East before marrying an American actor and moving to the U.S.

She has three children and seven grandchildren.

The author enjoys writing and illustrating her books in her home in Los Angeles.

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