The story is quite blood thirsty and not as I expected and yet there are flashes of familiarity. Now I knew the name, I thought I knew the story but I was wrong. So as way of something different I decided to try Jack the Giant Killer. Now years later I realise how much these stories have affected me and the literary landscape around me and I cannot resist reading them again, this time with older eyes. As you would expect many of them were children's classics which at the time I didn't really take to. I will admit I didn't realise how many there were until I stumbled across a copy of the Secret Garden and then I was well to be honest enchanted.īefore I got in to reading properly (more like passionately) I remember being force to read many a book school.
#JACK THE GIANT KILLER YOU CAN DO IT SERIES#
This is part of the Everymans Library of Children's classics, a series of beautifully bound books containing some of the most famous and iconic children's stories through the years. Before I got in to Okay I will admit that I have let things slip a little the last few days but this is my way of trying to get back in to things (so apologies one and all).
I will admit I didn't realise how many there were until I stumbled across a copy of the Secret Garden and then I was well to be honest enchanted. Okay I will admit that I have let things slip a little the last few days but this is my way of trying to get back in to things (so apologies one and all). It is a book that will satisfy both the child's delight in scariness, wonder, and magic, and the collector's pleasure in classic Victorian illustration.more It has remained one of the most beloved versions of this timeless tale.In this new Everyman's edition, Doyle's vivid, wonderfully engaging illustrations have been enlarged and the text has been given greater legibility. In 1842, when he was just 18, Richard Doyle, whose natural talent for draftsmanship was matched by imaginative invention and a passion for legend and the grotesque, created a picture-book version of Jack the Giant Killer, with hand-written text and a watercolor within a pictorial border decorating every page. In 1842, when he was just 18, Richard Doyle, whose natural talent for draftsmanship was matched by imaginative invention and a passion for legend and the grotesque, created a picture-book version of Jack the Giant Killer, w The story of Jack, the intrepid boy whose courage and ingenuity defeated a host of many-headed giants, has been told to children for hundreds of years. The story of Jack, the intrepid boy whose courage and ingenuity defeated a host of many-headed giants, has been told to children for hundreds of years.
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