The Selfish Giant (A Michael Neugebauer book)
A once selfish giant welcomes the children to his previously forbidden garden and is eventually rewarded by an unusual little child.
A once selfish giant welcomes the children to his previously forbidden garden and is eventually rewarded by an unusual little child.
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ISBN:
9781558582934 (1558582932)
Publisher: North-South Books (Nord-Sud Verlag AG)
Edition language: English
Being reminded of this short story is a recollection of my childhood, or at least of the day when I was a 14 year old plowing through an Oscar Wilde complete anthology book. I remember thinking that it was so much better than the pithy and pathetic morals found in the Smurfs and for some really odd ...
Nice, but I preferred The Big Ugly Monster and the Little Stone Rabbit.
A group of children adore playing in a beautiful garden, until the owner returns.http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00wljyd/Oscar_Wilde_The_Selfish_Giant/
On the surface this is a story about a lonely bitter giant who happens to possess a beautiful garden. When he discovers that children are playing there he puts a wall around it out of pure orneriness. In true fairy tale fashion, this backfires on him as Winter and her friends Snow and Frost decide...