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A girl’s imagination transports polio-afflicted kids into a fantastic world.
The spring of 1955 tests Laurie Valentine’s gifts as a storyteller. After her friend Dickie contracts polio and finds himself confined to an iron lung, Laurie visits him in the hospital. There she meets Carolyn and Chip, two other kids trapped inside the breathing machines. Laurie’s first impulse is to flee, but Dickie begs her to tell them a story. And so Laurie begins her tale of Collosso, a rampaging giant, and Jimmy, a tiny boy whose destiny is to become a slayer of giants.
As Laurie embellishes her tale with gnomes, unicorns, gryphons, and other fanciful creatures, Dickie comes to believe that he is a character in her story. Little by little Carolyn, Chip, and other kids who come to listen, recognize counterparts as well. Laurie’s tale is so powerful that when she’s prevented from continuing it, Dickie, Carolyn, and Chip take turns as narrators. Each helps bring the story of Collosso and Jimmy to an end—changing the lives of those in the polio ward in startling ways.
From the Hardcover edition.
- Sales Rank: #332292 in Books
- Brand: Yearling
- Published on: 2012-01-10
- Released on: 2012-01-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.71" h x .74" w x 5.19" l, .45 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 304 pages
From Booklist
Despite the title, this compelling story-within-a-story is not about giant slayers, but about children with giant spirits. Eleven-year-old Laurie Valentine has a lonely life but an active imagination. When her one and only friend, Dickie, is diagnosed with polio in 1955, she visits the hospital to tell Dickie and other stricken children a magical story about Jimmy, a destined giant slayer. Besides Dickie, there is Chip, an orphaned farm boy, and Carolyn, a 14-year-old girl who has been inside an iron lung for eight years. The three are transformed by the story and begin to see themselves in Laurie’s characters. When the unthinkable happens, Chip, Dickie, and Carolyn narrate the tale without Laurie, revealing truths about themselves. While the author flawlessly integrates Laurie’s fantasy narration with the 1955 story, the cover art of a giant about to squash little Jimmy might throw readers off a bit. Still, this effectively shows how children face life-changing challenges with incredible determination. Grades 4-6. --Kimberly Garnick
Review
Review, The Wall Street Journal, December 5, 2009:
"Young Readers...will not quickly forget this moving, imaginative glimpse of the not-so-long ago past."
Starred Review, Publishers Weekly, November 16, 2009:
"Distinctive, emotionally honest characters and consistently engrossing prose make this book a standout."
Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews, October 16, 2009:
"This profound, magical, dryly comical novel reminds readers of the power of story, but they will already be feeling it in their bones. Masterful."
From the Hardcover edition.
About the Author
Iain Lawrence is the author of numerous novels. He lives on Gabriola Island, British Columbia.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
A California Young Reader Medal Nominee
By juliej
Update: This book DID win the California Young Reader Medal!
I chose this book to read because it is a California Young Reader Medal Nominee for Intermediate level, 2012-2013. I enjoyed the other two nominees ("Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" and "Eleven" so I had a feeling I would like this one, too. About half-way into the book I decided I had to check out the reviews on Amazon to see if other people were feeling the same as I started feeling while reading this book. Imagine my shocked surprise to find there were only FIVE reviews. I was expecting many, many more.
The Giant-Slayer is the kind of book that as soon as you get into the story, you want to tell everyone to find the book and read it ... NOW. Then, as you start getting toward the end, you start reading slower, because you don't want it to be over. And finally, after it's done, you read the afterward, the acknowledgements, the back cover and inside covers, because you just don't want to let go. Then, you write a review on Amazon, because more people need to pick up this book.
The Giant-Slayer is a story within a story. It's 1955 and Laurie's best friend is hospitalized with polio. She visits him, against her father's wishes, and finds her friend with two other children, all in iron lungs. To entertain her new friends, Laurie starts making up a story ... about a giant-slayer. The story, which starts as a simple diversion, ends up as important as life itself.
I think this book would make an excellent read-aloud for 5-6th graders. But if you are older than that, don't look away, because the message of this book is TIMELESS. I am 45 years old and I loved every moment of reading this book. Had I read it as a child, it would have affected me as much as A Wrinkle in Time, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, or The Neverending Story.
I'm usually not one to pick up a book in the genre of historical fiction, but this book offers the reality of living with polio and the drama about the vaccine along with a compelling fantasy story that brings the two worlds together in an extremely satisfying way. I will not be surprised if this book wins the California Young Reader Medal.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
A mesmerizing and masterful piece of work, which will surely find its way to many "Best of the Year" lists
By KidsReads
Laurie Valentine's father works as a fundraiser to fight polio. He and their housekeeper, Mrs. Strawberry, restrict Laurie's activities severely during spring and summer because of the chance she will be exposed to the disease --- to the point that Laurie fears the sight of daffodils that herald the beginning of the dreaded "polio season." Because her father works a lot, Laurie has a quiet, sad and lonely childhood --- that is, until she's 11 and meets the new neighbor, Dickie Espinosa. Dickie is only eight and is tutored at home instead of attending school, but he becomes Laurie's first --- and only --- friend. They play together constantly; much of it centers on stories spun about an imaginary village based on the miniature world of Dickie's detailed toy train set.
As Laurie and Dickie play at the neighborhood creek in early spring, Laurie notices daffodils just beginning to emerge. She stomps them down, but when she returns home, she is in trouble with the protective and terrified Mrs. Strawberry, who fears that the creek might carry the polio virus. After Laurie argues with the housekeeper, her father assures her that if she can hold out just a bit longer, a polio vaccine will soon be available, and her life will no longer be restricted by the threat of contagion. However, Laurie soon learns that Dickie is a victim of the dreaded disease.
When Laurie --- against the wishes of her father and Mrs. Strawberry --- secretly visits the hospital, she finds Dickie in an iron lung. He shares the "respirator room" with two other children who are also in the same awful mechanism: the beautiful and disdainful Carolyn and the rather mysterious Chip. Laurie is horrified when the nurse praises Dickie for, with tremendous effort, barely twitching his fingers. She does not want to show pity to the patients, but is at a loss as to what to say and how to act. So it's a relief when Dickie brags about the stories Laurie invents and then asks her to make up one to entertain the three of them.
Laurie begins to spin an ongoing fantasy tale about a fearful giant and the most unlikely wannabe giant-slayer hero ever, picking up her story with each visit to the hospital. She weaves in suggestions from her listeners and sometimes hits astoundingly close to home, as when she unknowingly gives the Swamp Witch Carolyn's middle name. Meanwhile, Dickie becomes sincerely convinced that he is one of the characters in the tale. As more listeners gather, the background stories of the polio victims are revealed.
At the very beginning of THE GIANT-SLAYER, six-year-old Laurie maps out her vision of the future, which plays a significant role in the resolution of both her fantasy tale and her life story following an unexpected plot twist. Real life and Laurie's fantasy tale weave together throughout the book seamlessly, and author Iain Lawrence writes in an exquisitely understated manner, leaving his unadorned stories --- both the realistic historical fiction and the fantasy tale --- to blindside the reader with powerful emotions. Each story is riveting in its own right, but intertwined they become much more than the sum of their parts. THE GIANT-SLAYER is a mesmerizing and masterful piece of work, which will surely find its way to many "Best of the Year" lists and win some big awards.
--- Reviewed by Terry Miller Shannon (terryms2001@yahoo.com)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
THIS is the Polio Book for the Classroom!
By M. Lee
As a mother who screens everything her 13-year-old daughter reads - and still tries to - I had been quite taken aback by the viewpoint and conclusion of Lois Lowry's "Number the Stars" when I first came across it. I found that book to be an exceptionally inappropriate book on polio victims, especially one written for middle-schoolers, and, as a conservative, pro-life parent, made it known that it was not a book I would ever endorse. Polio, however, is a topic I think is necessary to be aware of, so, in addition to watching "The Five Pennies" with Danny Kaye on video, I encouraged said daughter to read "Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio" by Peg Kehret (first) and then "The Giant-Slayer" by Iain Lawrence. "Small Steps" is autobiographical, so its importance is irrefutable. Of the two books, however, "The Giant-Slayer" is more lyrical and so would appeal more to those who read fairy-tales by choice. The life-affirming message in "The Five Pennies", "Small Steps" and "The Giant-Slayer" need, need, NEED to be reiterated in today's world, especially to those who are incapacitated by illness or otherwise, and more especially in schools. This is definitely a keeper - even if the Kindle price is higher than bound. Said daughter's review follows:
"'The Giant-Slayer' by Iain Lawrence was a very sad, wonderful book.
"It is 1955, and Laurie Valentine is having fun. For the first time in her entire twelve years of life, she is having fun with a friend. That friend is a boy called Dickie, and what they do that day will change both their lives forever.
"The next day, Dickie's in the hospital, in an iron lung. He has polio. He caught it from the stream, where he and Laurie had splashed around. Yet, he was the only one who got it.
"Then, Laurie starts to visit him secretly, and she begins to tell him (and the other child patients in his ward) a tale, a tale about a boy only thirty-one and three-quarters inches high, but who is destined to become a giant-slayer. A tale about a girl who looks like a frog/lizard, but still has a mother somewhere who loves her. A tale about a man who hunts unicorns and a man who makes wishes come true. Soon, everyone in the polio ward - Carolyn, Chip, Dickie, James, Ruth and Peter - begins discovering that the story is eerily like what's going on in the real world.
"But if that is so, is one of them going to die?
"I think that the book was fabulous - it was really sad and bittersweet, yet at the same time I keep going over and over again to reread my favorite passages. MUCH better than other polio books I've read.
"I would give the book five stars: two stars for the characters, two stars for the plot, and one star because of the story within a story within a story.
"Total. Awesomeness."
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