Odd and the Frost Giants
Language: English
Ages 9-12 Fiction Animals Children's Books Children: Grades 3-4 Fairy Tales & Folklore Fairy Tales & Folklore - General Fantasy Fantasy & Magic Fiction General Giants Heroes Juvenile Fiction Legends; Myths; & Fables - Norse Legends; Myths; Fables Loki (Norse deity) Mythology; Norse Norse Odin (Norse deity) Science Fiction Science Fiction; Fantasy; Magic Thor (Norse deity)
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: Sep 8, 2009
Description:
EDITORIAL REVIEW: 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 .