Where Giants Hide - Tapa dura

""A small girl searches for magic across bright red and blue pages. She muses about where fantastical beings are, and as she does so, each appears on the page attempting and repeatedly failing to get the girl's attention. Kelly chooses a rhyming text sure to engage young readers, and Collins's illustrations do their part. When she asks, "Where is the fairy who will grant me a wish," the fairy is shown tugging the girl's hair. "And what happened to mermaids? Did they turn into fish?"-a mermaid swims directly under the girl's fishing net. As the wonderings include a flying broomstick, genie and goblins, the illustrations depict the exasperated creatures collecting, following the girl across each spread in ever-more-desperate efforts to prove they exist. Bright yellow pixies cause commotion in the kitchen, and a striped pastel-purple dragon curves from the fireplace breathing golden fire. Just when the girl decides "if there ever was magic, / it's / all / leaked / away," she realizes that magic is her power of imagination. Make sure to experience this ebullient celebration." - Kirkus " - Kirkus

""If you're searching for life's enchantments in the form of mermaids and dragons and such, this rhyming book delivers big time... true magic on each and every page." - Scholastic Parent and Child" - Scholastic Parent and Child

""Where Giants Hide, is a clever book that helps children and adults keep the magic of childhood alive. Yes, it's a book about growing up and realizing the difference between fact and fantasy, but it's also a book about the importance of keeping fantasy and imagination alive in your heart, no matter how old you get.

Enjoy this touching book with its bright, imaginative, "giant" pictures by illustrator Ross Collins. You'll be glad you added it to your collection." - YABooksCentral.com" - YABooksCentral.com

I went hunting for giants.
I searched far and wide.
They're bigger than houses.
So where do they hide?

There is magic all around you if you look hard enough!

Where is the fairy who will grant me a wish?

Is there no fearsome troll lurking under the bridge?

And why won't my broomstick budge just an inch?

A young girl has lost all the enchantment in her world. She embarks upon a journey-searching far and wide-to find that one amazing thing that will make her believe in extraordinary possibilities once again. It's only when she realizes the power of believing in her own dreams that she discovers she held the magic inside her all along.

MIJ KELLY had an extremely colorful and varied childhood house hopping around the UK, not to mention skipping across to India as well. Mij has worked as a newspaper editor, an oral historian, and now, a specialist journalist in artificial intelligence. Mij has two children. She won the Kathleen Fidler Award for her first book in 1993, and One More Sheep won the English Association 4?11 Years Award for Best Illustrated Book in 2004.

ROSS COLLINS was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1972. He graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 1994 and won the MacMillan Children's Book Prize in the same year. Ross spends his time writing and illustrating children's books and precariously swinging backward on chairs. Ross can also be found scaring small children at book festivals and schools. Ross has won many awards, and The Elephantom was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2007.