The Giants' Tree House: A QUIX Book

by Jane Yolen, Tomie dePaola (Illustrator)

Overview

The Giants build a tree house in the fourth book about the huge-hearted family from the bestselling and beloved team, Jane Yolen and Tomie dePaola, in this series for Aladdin QUIX, a line of fun-to-read, short chapter books.

Dazzle, Grab, Grub, Little Dab, and Grizzle might just be in over their giant heads when they embark on a new project: building a gigantic, super-deluxe treehouse!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534488687
Publisher:	Aladdin
Publication date:	01/28/2025
Series:	Giants Series , #4
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	80
File size:	24 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

Jane Yolen is an award-winning author who has written more than 380 books for children, including the bestseller How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? and the 1988 Caldecott Medal winner Owl Moon. She is known for her beautiful poetry, picture books, fairy tales, novels, and nonfiction, and has even been called “the Hans Christian Andersen of America” (Newsweek). She lives in Hatfield, Massachusetts. Visit her at JaneYolen.com.

Tomie dePaola (1934–2020) was the beloved author and/or illustrator of more than 270 books for young readers, including the children’s classic Strega Nona. He was the recipient of the Newbery Honor, Caldecott Honor, and the 2011 Children’s Literature Legacy Award for “significant and lasting contribution to children’s literature.” A native of Connecticut, Mr. dePaola studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and spent much of his life in New London, New Hampshire. Visit his work online at Tomie.com.

Read an Excerpt

 1   A Loud Scream

 

  Dazzle was in the kitchen, figuring out a new recipe and tasting each step along the way.

  “Yum!” she whispered to herself.

  And sometimes, “Not so yum!”

  And sometimes, “Ugh!”

  And sometimes, “Yuck!”

  And then she would take notes, and start all over again.

  As usual the twins, Grab and Grub, were out at the picnic table, trying snacks out for Dazzle and playing board games.

  They had just finished playing four games of Slides and Ladders. Now they were playing a game called Giants versus Littles, and Grab was way ahead.

  As usual little Dab was in her room reading a book. It was called Giants in Wonderland. She had just finished Moby Duck the night before, and today she wanted a funny book.

  But she had just gotten to the part in the story where the gigantic fire-breathing jabber came into view, and she was no longer sure this was the book for her.

  Sighing, she put it down.

  As usual the biggest giant, Grizzle, was outside checking all the fences at the Fe-Fi-Fo-Farm, making certain that everything was just right.

 

   

 

Suddenly Grizzle yelled, and he thundered, his voice loud and clear, “TREEEEEEEEmendous!”

  As he barreled past the twins at the picnic table, into the house, past Dazzle in the kitchen, and past Dab in her bedroom, he continued to cry, “TREEEEEEmendous!”

  What is going on with Grizzle? Why is he yelling at the tippy-top of his giant-sized voice? all the other Giants wondered.

   

  Then Grizzle wrenched open the door of his own bedroom and fell onto the unmade bed. He was still yelling the same strange word as the bed collapsed beneath him.

  And then everything in the farmhouse went silent.