Odd and the Frost Giants Hardcover - 2009
by Gaiman, Neil/ Helquist, Brett (Illustrator)
- New
- Hardcover
Newbery Medalist Gaiman and illustrator Helquist team up for a new fantasy novella in which a young boy must free Asgard--the city of the gods--from the evil Frost Giants. Illustrations.
Description
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Details
- Title Odd and the Frost Giants
- Author Gaiman, Neil/ Helquist, Brett (Illustrator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 128
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harpercollins Childrens Books, New York
- Date 2009
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # __0061671738
- ISBN 9780061671739 / 0061671738
- Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 7.6 x 5.3 x 0.6 in (19.30 x 13.46 x 1.52 cm)
- Ages 08 to 12 years
- Grade levels 3 - 7
- Reading level 820
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Cultural Region: Scandinavian
- Library of Congress subjects Heroes, Mythology, Norse
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009014574
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
In this inventive, short, yet perfectly formed novel inspired by traditional Norse mythology, Neil Gaiman takes readers on a wild and magical trip to the land of giants and gods and back.
In a village in ancient Norway lives a boy named Odd, and he's had some very bad luck: His father perished in a Viking expedition; a tree fell on and shattered his leg; the endless freezing winter is making villagers dangerously grumpy.
Out in the forest Odd encounters a bear, a fox, and an eagle--three creatures with a strange story to tell.
Now Odd is forced on a stranger journey than he had imagined--a journey to save Asgard, city of the gods, from the Frost Giants who have invaded it.
It's going to take a very special kind of twelve-year-old boy to outwit the Frost Giants, restore peace to the city of gods, and end the long winter.
Someone cheerful and infuriating and clever . . .
Someone just like Odd .
Media reviews
Citations
- Asimov's Science Fiction, 02/01/2010, Page 109
- Booklist, 07/01/2009, Page 61
- BookPage, 10/01/2009, Page 0
- Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 02/01/2010, Page 0
- Horn Book Magazine, 11/01/2009, Page 672
- Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2010, Page 0
- Kirkus Review - Children, 09/15/2009, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 08/17/2009, Page 62
- School Library Journal, 10/01/2009, Page 126
