Giant Steps

by Elizabeth Loredo, Barry Root (Illustrator)

What do loud-sighin’, eye-rollin’, yawny-bored giants do for fun? Play giant steps, of course. And when you’re a giant, the whole world is your playground! The fifth giant is it and his four friends run far and fast in all directions, taking them to the four corners of the globe and back—over jaggy tip mountains and yawn mouth canyons, through red stripe deserts, dark tangle jungles and herds of trumpetin’, thumpetin’ wild animals.

Join the giants in their hilarious version of a familiar childhood game, where the outcome all depends on that fifth giant, all alone on the mountaintop counting ONE . . . TWO . . . THREE . . .

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens

32 pages, Hardcover

First published February 23, 2004

Reviews

[Alice · Rating 2 out of 5]

Oh sad for this book. So Boring! Is this self published...because...well it feels like it. The grammar. "The fourth giant she run west as far and as fast as she could go "
First "Run" is in the improper tense, and West is a direction and should be capitalized. Is this suppose to be "Giant" speak?

Could someone explain to me by someone thought this book was worth publishing? Who is GP Putnam and Sons a division of Penguins Young Readers Group?

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a delightful story told in a sing-song story-telling style, with some very BIG protagonists. They are very enthusiastic about their games, their joys, their frustrations, and throwing suns around. My only complaint is that their playground is the entire world, but they all have light (white?) skin. I would have appreciated some diversity in such a global tale. They do divide between men and women though.

[Robin Raines-Bond · Rating 2 out of 5]

Kind of a strange book for me. However, It teaches about the directions of North, South, East and West and the animals that live in those area of the Earth.