This is an old story taken from James Baldwin’s book for children, Fifty Famous Stories. I have provided a new illustration and hope you like it. For those of you […]
Get Children Outside (Of Themselves)
Kids today are offered many invitations to be shallow. Everywhere they are bombarded with proclamations that reality is self-defined, appetites are sacred, and that self-control is self-defacement. If you examine […]
King Arthur and the Giant of Mont Saint Michel
This story features a nasty type of giant that is helpful to portray. It is the classic story of King Arthur and the Giant of Mont Saint Michel. There are […]
The Pleasing Meanness of Giants
O! it is excellent To have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. Shakespeare, Measure for Measure Paul Bunyan, Roald Dahl’s BFG, and the […]
Sheep-eating Giant
I’m adding some middle-grade cover images to my […]