Giant by Juliet and Charles Snape

2.5 stars

Sorry about the late post today. It is March Break here and we were having some family fun today! I hope you are having an awesome week!

Synopsis

Lia lives in a village at the foot of a mountain, which is really a giant. The giant does not like how the villagers use her. So, she leaves. The villagers try to make their own substitutions but, it is not quite the same.

My Thoughts

I found this book to be a bit confusing and I felt that there were some pages missing. But I doubled checked and they were, in fact, all there.

The first few pictures makes it seem like the villagers are fairly responsible with the mountain. Then BAM! the mountain is covered in garbage, though the words talk about picnics and playing. The words don't tell us that the villagers are not being careful with the waste, the picture does. It is like the picture and the words don't sync up very well.

The mountain feels used and uncared for, which would I guess makes sense but it still looked o.k. Not like a huge waste land.

Then the villagers get the great idea of replacing the giant mountain with garbage. A big old hill of garbage. Really, I don't call that a great idea. I call that a dump. Who would want to play in that or let their kids play in that. Like really. It's not very realistic, or at least, it didn't make sense.

When the villagers realize how much they miss the giant, they just simply ask her to come back and she does. If I was that giant I would be looking for some guarantees or hashing out some sort of compensation package.

Now, I think the moral of the story is to take care of the environment and not be wasteful or destructive to the earth. But it does not come across in a very straight forward way. It was just such an awkward and weird story.