Giants

They're nasty and mean. They terrorize the countryside, and grind up bones for their bread. They tower over trees and mountains, flatten villages with one step, and hoard so much treasure you'd think they were dragons. They're giants; the subject of the winter issue of Spellbound. 


We have sick giants, well giants, shy giants and lost giants. We have giants who want to be friends and giants who just want to be left alone. The story, "May Hill", shows why sometimes it's best to leave sleeping giants alone. In "The Giant of Wasselwharf" the village of Wasselwharf has always wanted a giant of their own like other towns, but when a giant walrus shows up it might be too much of a good thing. "The Giant's Epitaph" wonders what's in a name? 


There's plenty of amazing art, a giant-sized reading list, and much more. 


Poetry 

The Giant’s Epitaph by Carrie L Clickard 

I’ve Met Our Local Giant by Jessica Fordham Kidd 

The Giant’s Prescription by Pamela Love 

The Giantess by Matthew Wilson 

Jack and the Beanstalk by Laurel Klein 

The Giant in the Mountains by Virginia M Mohlere 


Fiction 

Gwythyr and the Ants: An Arthurian Tale from the Welsh Mabinogion by Sandi Leibowitz 

May Hill by Jenny Moore 

The Dentist's Apprentice by Kate Heartfield 

Caring for Kapre by Marilag Angway 

One Hundred Leaves by Ariel Ptak 

The Giant of Wasselwharf by Siena Leslie 


With artwork by Mimi Alves, Adam Hartlaub, Karen Ann Hollingsworth, Wendy Martin, Henry Ponciano, Aaron Siddal, Cleoward Sy and Laurel Varian.