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Gruffalo의 작가인 Julia Donaldson(글)과 Axel Scheffler(그림)이 콤비를 이뤄 만든 작품입니다.

여기저기 기운 옷과 다 떨어진 샌달을 신은 남루한 차림의 giant George는 멋진 새 옷을 차려 입고 소원하던 멋쟁이 신사가 됩니다.

하지만 추위에 떠는 기린을 위해 스카프를 벗어주고,
돛을 잃어버려 오갈데 없는 염소를 위해 셔츠를 벗어 돛을 만들어 주고,
집이 몽땅 불타버린 생쥐네 가족들을 위해 구두 한짝을 벗어주고,
캠프에서 침낭을 잃어버린 여우를 위해 양말을 벗어주고,
진흙탕을 건널 다리가 필요한 강아지를 위해 벨트로 진흙탕 위에 길을 놓아 주는 등
George는 자기가 가진 것을 하나씩 나눠주게 됩니다.

결국 giant George는 누더기 같은 헌옷을 다시 걸치게 되지만 친구들로부터 더 멋진 선물을 받게 됩니다. Gruffalo에서 보여준 선명한 색감과 유머러스한 인물 묘사는 한결 원숙미를 더해 극적인 효과를 더해줍니다. 친절한 George 이야기를 들려주며 마음이 따뜻한 아이로 자라주길 바라는 엄마의 마음도 함께 전해줄 수 있는 좋은 책입니다.






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Edition : Paperback: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 0142402753
ISBN-13: 978-0142402757
책 크기: 26.7cm x 21.6cm



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Book Description
George the giant, known for wearing his old patched clothes, finally buys new ones, but then gives them away to some needy animals.


From the Publisher
When George the giant spies a shop full of wonderful clothes, he decides totreat himself to a new outfit. He puts on his new shirt, pants, shoes, and tie, and is immediately transformed from the scruffiest giant in town to the spiffiest giant in town. But on his way home, George runs into various animals who need his help. And little by little, George finds himself giving away all his new purchases.
From the creators of Room on the Broom, this is a lively tale that reminds readers that sometimes it's what's inside a person-or a giant-that matters most.


Publishers Weekly
PW wrote, "The book's joie de vivre and the characters' droll camaraderie will almost certainly prove infectious."


Children's Literature
At the beginning of this story, George the Giant, concerned with his scruffy appearance, purchases nice clothing. However, his spiffy new outfit quickly goes to the dogs and the goat and the nice and many other animals in distress that he helps along the way back to his house. George is so nice that he literally does give away the clothes off his back to each troubled character he meets, whether it's a necktie for a giraffe with a cold neck or a shoe for a homeless mouse. Scheffler's animated illustrations are the perfect fit with Donaldson's light-hearted writing and any reader will appreciate the match. A fun and sweet read for just about anyone, this book teaches the value of compassion and, by the end, shows that while generosity is its own reward, kindness is not forgotten and gratitude expresses itself in surprising ways. Who says good looks can't go together with a good heart?


School Library Journal
In a place where giants and "regular sized" people coexist peacefully, George has a problem. He is "the scruffiest giant in town" until he finds a new clothing shop and buys himself some new duds. However, his days of being the spiffiest giant in town are numbered because he is so kindhearted. As he sings a little tune to himself about looking so fine, he runs into needy creatures. Soon George has given up his striped tie to warm a giraffe's neck, a shoe to house a mouse family, his shirt to a goat that needs a sail for its boat, and so on until he has to retrieve his old rags. Finally, he is offered a crown and the title "the kindest giant in town" by his appreciative beneficiaries. Scheffler's brightly colored, animated cartoons, done in pencil, ink, watercolors, colored pencils, and crayons, are perfect for this offbeat story of generosity. Good for collections needing books about being kind to others.


Kirkus Reviews
Never was a striptease worked to more beneficent ends as when George the humble and sartorially challenged giant starts taking it off, piece by piece. George is obviously no clotheshorse, but even he realizes that his patched and soiled gown has-yes, perhaps-gotten a little too shabby. So he drops in on the village haberdashery for some spiffy, new duds. Then, as he takes a promenade to air his new wardrobe, he gradually gives away the items: his tie to a giraffe with a cold neck, his shirt to a goat in need of a sail for his boat, his belt to a dog who wants to get through a bog (Donaldson throws in some natty rhymes). George doesn't get down to the skinny, but near enough that when he discovers his old gown in the refuse pile, he's a happy man once more; besides, those new clothes just didn't set comfortably on George. Nevertheless, the recipients of his largesse crown him the kindliest giant for his generosity. A lovely piece of work, from the upbeat, musical writing-"George strode on, singing to himself, 'My tie is a scarf for a cold giraffe, / My shirt's on a boat as a sail for a goat, / But look me up and down- / I'm the spiffiest giant in town!' "-to the appealingly jokey art, with its crack visual storytelling and its clever insinuations of fairy-tale characters into the scenes.