The Giants' Farm: Giants 1

Contents Cover Title Page Dedication Cast of Characters Chapter 1: The Farm Chapter 2: The Secret Chapter 3: Dazzle’s Candy Chapter 4: Grizzle’s Grumble Chapter 5: And Little Dab Recipe Word List Questions About the Author and Illustrator Copyright Guide Cover Start of Content Title Page Dedication About the Author and Illustrator Copyright I III IV V VII VIII IX X XI XII 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 
 
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 The Giants’ Farm
 Jane Yolen
 Illustrations by Tomie dePaola
 
 
 
 
 
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 Jacket designed by Karin Paprocki & Evelyn Wang
 Jacket illustration copyright © 1977 by Tomie Depaola
 Library of Congress Control Number 2021948590
 ISBN 9781534488588 (hc)
 ISBN 9781534488571 (pbk)
 ISBN 9781534488595 (ebook)
 
 
 For Heidi E. Y. Stemple and Peter B. Tacy, who make me happy and give me room and time to write
 —J. Y.
 
 
 Cast of Characters
 Grizzle: the biggest giant
 Dazzle: the roundest giant
 Grab: Grub’s twin
 Grub: Grab’s twin
 Little Dab: the smallest giant
 
 
 
 
 
 1 The Farm
 Long ago there were five giants who wanted to live together on a farm.
 There was Grizzle. He was the biggest and liked to build things.
 Dazzle was the roundest, and she loved to cook.
 The twins—Grab and Grub—always stuck together.
 Last was the little giant Dab, who loved to read.
 To make the farm, first the giants had to clear the land. Grizzle picked up huge boulders. He laid them one on top of another to make an enormous wall.
 Together, Grab and Grub moved trees whose bark looked like long, shaggy dresses.
 Dab read a book that showed her how 
 2 The Secret
 
 Now that the farm was named, the giants had other problems to worry about. Some they shared, but some they did not.
 It turned out, Grab and Grub had a secret. A BIG secret. Of course, when any other giant had a secret, they kept it… well… secret!
 One giant, one secret.
 But Grab and Grub were twins. They were so much alike, they were like one person.
 If Grab was happy, Grub was happy.
 If Grub was sad, Grab was sad. And when one of them had a secret, they both had a secret.
 And this one was mega-secret. They