Joe Bolin’s Reviews > The Giant-Slayer > Status Update

This book is really coming together, and is easily the best of this year's intermediate California young reader award nominees. It's taken a while, but finally the story of the polio victims and the fairytale have been fully integrated.

Okay, I have to say it: the story of Fingal, Jimmy, and Collosso is one of the best I have read, but I really dislike the interruptions to the story from the children with polio. Eventually, I may see the point of these interruptions, but for now, they just break the flow of an otherwise very engaging story.

The backstory on polio is fascinating, but I'm glad to get into the fictional part of the book.