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| The Giants and the Joneses | 
| Author: Julia Donaldson
Creator: Greg Swearingen
Publisher: Square Fish
Category: Book
List Price: $6.99
Buy New: $3.00
You Save: $3.99 (57%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 383639
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0312379617
EAN: 9780312379612
ASIN: 0312379617
Publication Date: May 27, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: New from bookstore buyout, never read or sold and not a remainder.
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Product Description
Jumbeelia the young giantess loves to hear the old story about the iggly plop who climbed up the bimplestonk to the giants’ land of Groil. Then, one day, she throws a bimple over the edge of Groil.
Down, down, down Jumbeelia climbs—right down into the land of the iggly plops, where she discovers Colette, Poppy, and Stephen Jones; puts them into her canvas bag; and carries them back to Groil.
Soon the children find themselves shut in her dollhouse, with no visible means of escape. With danger surrounding them at every turn, the children must use all their wits to survive and figure out a way to get back home. . . .
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| Customer Reviews:
Haley's Review- Age 10 June 1, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book Giants and the Joneses was great. I liked how the book was based on Jack and the Beanstalk. I liked how the book had its own dictionary too. I recommend this book to a lot of people. I hope she writes a sequel. I can't wait to read her other books.
Iggly Plops Unite! March 13, 2006
If you love the B.F.G by Roald dahl, if you like stories about "little people" like The Borrowers and The Littles, if you are in search of a great read aloud for your seven year old, this is the book to choose! As you know, there are no such things as giants, and the giants tell their children there are no such things as beanstalks or iggly plops. Or are there?
A GREAT BOOK January 23, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an incredible book! I teach 2nd grade and used it to teach about context clues. The kids were mesmerized!!
Totally engaging November 17, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
My girls - 5 and 8 - love this book. I read it to them three months ago and we still talk about "igglyplops" and "bealy" things. The story is compelling -- three kids in a world of giants. The giants have their own language, but kids can identify with the giant childrens' normal everyday lives. There's an imagined world, suspense, and siblings who grow to love one another -- who could ask for anything else?
 Visit the Land of the Giants November 7, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The Giants and the Joneses begins where Jack and the Beanstalk leaves off. In our time, the Giants of the land of Groil still tell the story of "Jack and the Beanstalk." But no one really believes in the "Iggly Plops" or the Little People. No one except an eight-year old giant named Jumbeelia. Jumbeelia drops a bean over the edge of Groil and the next day she climbs down a giant beanstalk where she collects a few new toys - including the three Jones children.
This is a fun story with the added challenge of a make-believe giant language to decode. (A dictionary is included.) The story does get a little scary when Jumbeelia's brother captures the Jones children and mistreats them, but this shouldn't be enough to put most children off. In addition, this story may lead readers to contemplate sibling relationships, treatment of smaller, helpless creatures, and whether there may be truth in legends.
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