Giants have feelings, too: Traditional Literature

 

"Giants have feelings, too" is by Dr. Alvin Grangowsky. It is on the other side of the book "Jack and the Beanstalk" that I recently wrote about. It is about the Giants perspective. It begins with Jack coming up the beanstalk and eating bread, but when the Giant came he hid in the oven. When the Giant fell asleeo counting his gold Jack took the gold and went all the way down the beanstalk home. When the Giant woke up him and his wife were confused to where the money went, and they believed they misplaced it. A while later Jack came back. He then ate bread and hid in the oven when the giant appeared. The Giant then had his hen lay golden eggs. When he fell asleep Jack stole the hen, and went down the beanstalk. they then knew it had to be Jack taking their things. Jack came back, but this time he snuck in, and did not tell anyone. When he was hiding in the oven the Giant family listened to their gold harp play music. When Jack had the chance he stole the harp, but the harp yelled out for help. When he yelled out for help the wife saw Jack taking the harp, and the Giant ran after him. Jack then cut down the Beanstalk, and the Giant hit his head. The giant was devastated because they had been nothing but nice to jack.  I would use this book in my classroom to teach people to never judge a book by its cover, and that bullying is not okay. It would be good for a 2nd grade classroom, but it could be used in any of them to talk about treating others with respect.