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3.96 AVERAGE
3.96 AVERAGE
A fun adventure, with a redheaded tomboy determined to solve her town's giant problem, accompanied by her amateur chef brother and her princess-in-training best friend.
adventurous
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Really enjoyable, with endearing characters and a wild plot.
There's a BABY-FEET-EATING giant that needs to be slayed. The only one who wants to do it is a little girl named Claudette, who happens to be the daughter of a dragon slayer who lost both his legs and is in a wheelchair but still very able to kick ass and who never once tries to stop his daughter from being who she is. Claudette's recruits (her brother Gaston ( who wants to be a pastry chef) and her friend Marie (an aspiring princess) to go on this giant slaying adventure with her and helps them learn that they are both heroic in their own right.
This was just a really enjoyable and refreshing read. It challenges all those gender stereotypes (and ableism) and just as importantly, challenges the ideas that heroes need to achieve their hero status through aggression and violence only.
This was just a really enjoyable and refreshing read. It challenges all those gender stereotypes (and ableism) and just as importantly, challenges the ideas that heroes need to achieve their hero status through aggression and violence only.
Claudette lives in a town protected by a huge wall to keep the giant out. Years earlier, the town had been terrorized by The Baby-Feet Eating Giant who still figures into most of the stories to keep the children in town in line. Claudette though knows that she is brave enough to slay any giant, so she sets out with her wooden sword to kill the giant. She brings along her friend Marie who desperately wants to be a princess and her younger brother Gaston who is a disappointment to their father who wants him to be more brave. Gaston on the other hand wants to be a chef. The three children head out on their quest that will take them through the Forest of Death, across the Mad River, and up to the Giant’s Peak. Unfortunately, their parents are following them to bring them back home before their adventure is really complete! Can Claudette kill the giant before being dragged back to safety?
Read the rest of my review on my blog, Waking Brain Cells.
Read the rest of my review on my blog, Waking Brain Cells.
This graphic novel takes traditional giant-battling knight stories and turns them on their heads, throwing in a powerful giant-battling girl and a giant or two that may surprise you.
Learning to enjoy graphic novels...this one had me laughing out loud
I'm definitely not really a graphic novel person, but this book was so cute! I think as a teacher it will be important for me to have graphic novels in my classroom to get the boys in my class to love reading.