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Overview

Make way for Claudette the giant slayer in this delightful, fantastical adventure!

Claudette's fondest wish is to slay a giant. But her village is so safe and quiet! What's a future giant slayer to do?

With her best friend Marie (an aspiring princess), and her brother Gaston (a pastry-chef-to-be), Claudette embarks on a super-secret quest to find a giant—without parental permission. Can they find and defeat the giant before their parents find them and drag them back home?

Giants Beware! offers up a wondrous, self-contained world in the tradition of the very best of Pixar. Claudette and her friends will have you laughing out loud from page one.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781596435827
Publisher:	First Second
Publication date:	04/10/2012
Series:	The Chronicles of Claudette
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	301,385
Product dimensions:	7.52(w) x 9.84(h) x 0.46(d)
Lexile:	GN240L (what's this?)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Jorge Aguirre is a Colombian-American from Columbus, Ohio. He's written for everything from the most popular children's shows to documentaries about Romanian exorcisms. He lives on the East Coast.

Born in Puerto Rico and based in Ohio, Rafael Rosado is a veteran of the animation industry. He is currently a storyboard artist for Warner Brothers, Disney, and Cartoon Network.

Reading Group Guide

For Discussion:
Giants Beware! is a graphic novel, a story told in words and pictures. How do you think this story would be told differently if it was a novel, with only words? How would it be different if it was a movie, with just pictures?
Which is a better job: giant-slaying, princessing, or cooking? Why?
The village seems to have a secret history with giants. Tell your own version of what that story might be.
"We're not brave," say Gaston and Marie at the beginning of the book. Do you think that's true? Do you think their opinions of themselves have changed by the end of the book?
Gaston wants to be a pastry chef and make swords. Do you think the two are incompatible dreams? Does Gaston's father?
Do you think that Claudette is wise to run away from home? What might be a better solution to her problems?
What would you rather face: man-eating trees, an Apple Hag, or the Mad River King?
What would be your strategy to defeat your foe?
What do you think of Claudette's way of dealing with the baby giant and the soldiers from her village who were on the warpath? What would you have done in a similar situation?
Claudette says at the end of the story that friends matter more than fame or fortune.

Do you think that's true? What matters the most to you?

From the B&N Reads Blog

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The best books are greeted with squees of joy when you find out they’re being published, embraced with squees when they arrive in the home, read immediately (without verbalized squees, because of the reader being deeply absorbed) and then pressed into the hands of those who haven’t read them yet with squee-full conviction. One such book […]

Comedy and fairy tale sensibilities balance perfectly in this exciting debut by writer Aguirre and illustrator Rosado. Delightfully spunky Claudette is set on becoming a monster slayer like her father (who is missing limbs due to his earlier adventures). When she hears the story of a giant on the loose, she is determined to leave her home—accompanied by her cowardly brother, Gaston, and best friend Marie—in order to set things right. Driven by Claudette’s courage, Marie, who wants nothing more than to become a princess, shows proper heroic wits, and Gaston reveals inner strength and determination. When Claudette discovers that not all stories are as they seem, she and her friends must fool the adults who have come to bring them home to protect an innocent monster. The rich world and engaging characters are a surefire hit—and the glorious full-color illustrations, which pack a novel’s worth of expression onto cartoon faces, should bring readers back for multiple reads of this many-layered story. One can only hope that Aguirre and Rosado have more adventures planned. Ages 7–up. (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly

Praise for The Chronicles of Claudette series:

"These stylish books — there are three so far — are called “Giants Beware!,” “Monsters Beware!” and “Dragons Beware!,” and they are just the thing for kids who like fractured fairy tales."—New York Times

Praise for Giants Beware!:

"The story, with its riffs on fairy tales and quest narratives, offers just the right balance of familiarity and originality, with plenty of humorous asides."—The New York Times

"Comedy and fairy tale sensibilities balance perfectly in this exciting debut by writer Aguirre and illustrator Rosado."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

"This is one book that readers are sure to enjoy again and again."—Children's Literature

"The story strikes a fine balance between beingaction-and friendship-driven. The art is similarly well-balanced: Rosado’s inkdrawings are strong and lively, with expressive characters and well-drawnlandscapes."—School Library Journal, starred review

"This winning graphic novel will inspire kids dreaming of becoming knights and princesses alike by mixing appealing fairy-tale plotswith unconventional solutions."—Horn Book

"Entertaining, lively, and downright goofy, this willfind an audience among fans of fairy tales and comic books alike."—The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

"A zingy little story told with fine flair."—Booklist

“Fast, fun, and joyous to look at!” —Jeff Smith, author of Bone

“A young heroine and her two sidekicks set off on adventure in Giants Beware!” —The New York Times

“A surefire hit!” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Strong and lively!” —School Library Journal, starred review

“The writing is great, the artwork is just stupendous - I can't recommend this book highly enough!” —BoingBoing Geek Week Podcast

From the Publisher

Gr 3–6—A blacksmith's daughter is unsatisfied with her peaceful life within the fortress of Mont Petit Pierre. Rambunctious and loudmouthed, Claudette yearns for action, like killing the giant that lives on the mountain outside of town. With her timid brother, Gaston, and her ladylike friend, Marie, she blusters her way through the fortress gate and into the Forest of Death, beyond which lies the Mad River, and then Giant's Peak. Can these three kids, armed with a wooden sword, Marie's intelligence, Gaston's fortitude, Claudette's stinky feet, and a pug named Valiant, survive in the wilderness and defeat the giant? Of course they can, but not in the ways they might have expected. The adults in the story are distinguished by exaggerated characteristics, but their actions are driven by realistic, largely generous motives. The story strikes a fine balance between being action-and friendship-driven. The art is similarly well-balanced: Rosado's ink drawings are strong and lively, with expressive characters and well-drawn landscapes. Digitally applied color is natural, bright, and nonintrusive. Fans of Jimmy Gownley's "Amelia Rules" (S &S) and Jeff Smith's "Bone" series (Scholastic) will snap this title up.—Paula Willey , Baltimore County Public Library, Towson, MD

School Library Journal

The story, with its riffs on fairy tales and quest narratives, offers just the right balance of familiarity and originality, with plenty of humorous asides…Rosado draws richly expressive characters and ably depicts action sequences…[his] vibrant, full-color landscapes, filled with lush purples and greens, are an exciting backdrop for the threesome's adventures…This is a rollicking fun story…
—The New York Times

Pamela Paul

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