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As my daughter is such a lover of books, I am always buying her more for her collection when I am out shopping, or through The Book People. One day I received a brochure through the post from The... more

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  • 24 of 24 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 5 babycakes17

    Member since 19/06/2010

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    User recommends the product

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    As my daughter is such a lover of books, I am always buying her more for her collection when I am out shopping, or through The Book People. One day I received a brochure through the post from The Book People and in it was a set of books which included The Gruffalo which is one of my little girls favourite books. I decided to purchase the set as they were all from the creators of that fantastic book so I thought that my daughter would love them. One of the books in the set was The Smartest Giant In Town and is written by the brilliant Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. The book ... more
  • 21 of 21 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 Sarahjh1

    Member since 02/11/2008

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    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Super bedtime reading

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    As you may have already guessed I have been reading through all of Julia Donaldson's children's books and the more I read the more I love. The Smartest Giant in Town is a tale of great kindness that was rewarded and it is uplifting for any child to think that they too will be rewarded in a small way for their kind acts. The book title is especially clever, the Giant is smart in more than one ways than one. Axel Scheffler has given us a larger than life Giant who lives in a very colourful town, the animals , wildlife and countryside in the book all draw the eye and give so much pleasure to the ... more
  • 26 of 26 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 9 kingfisher111

    Member since 05/02/2006

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    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages a good story to share with little ones

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    THis book is written by Julia Donaldson who is best known for writing the Gruffalo stories. In this book we meet George who is a giant and is not generally known for being smart - in fact he is the scruffiest giant in town! He does get a bit fed up of being thought of as scruffy though, so one day decides to do something about it. He discovers a new shop full of smart clothes so he buys himself a new shirt, trousers, belt, tie, shoes and socks. He is so pleased he dresses in them immediately, leaves his old clothes at the shop and sets off home. However, on the way home he meets a number of ... more
  • 19 of 19 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    magdadh

    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages good story, nice rhyme, excellent ilustrations, feel-good factor

    Disadvantages Disadvantages can't think of any

    How come we got it? ------------------------------- When we were living in Poland there came a point where we got fed up with reading the same English books again and again to our daughter. What else to do but log on, take advantage of the free UK postage over orders of 25 GBP and order 50 pounds worth of children's books from Amazon to be delivered to Granny's address. They arrived at the UK address after a few days and were with us in Poland after another 10 days or so. 50 GBP buys you actually quite a few children's books and with rationing the excitment of getting out a new one could be ... more
  • 9 of 9 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    chrissie_pie

    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages just the right length for bedtime, written in correct sentences

    Disadvantages Disadvantages kids may love it to much (i know it off by heart)

    George was a giant the scruffiest giant in town.... and so it begins George is a bit down about his apearance so he goes and buys some new clothes. On his way home he meets a whole host of animals with different dillemas and helps them out with by donating an item of clothing. For instance George meets a mouse whose house has burned down and kindly donates a shoe for her and her babies to live in. The book its self is very nice to look at and at A4 size easy for toddler to handle. I have also found it to be very durable (my son stuck stickers on the inside pages and they peeled off easily ... more

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Type Fiction
Genre Children's
Title The Smartest Giant in Town
Author Julia Donaldson
ISBN 0333961447; 0333963962; 1405051280; 1405092378

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