Children's Fiction Humorous Stories
Duff the Giant Killer
- Publisher
- Formac Publishing Company Limited
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1997
- Category
- Humorous Stories
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780887803833
- Publish Date
- Jan 1997
- List Price
- $14.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780887803826
- Publish Date
- Jan 1997
- List Price
- $5.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 5 to 10
- Grade: 1 to 5
- Reading age: 5 to 10
Description
Getting over the chicken pox can be boring, but Duff and Simon find a great way to enjoy themselves - acting out one of their favourite stories, Jack the Giant Killer, in the park. In fact, they do it so well the police get into the act.
About the authors
Budge Wilson (b. 1927) was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and lived in Kingston, Ontario, before moving back to North West Cove, Nova Scotia. A former commercial artist and photographer, she has written more than twenty books, many of them for children and young adults; her awards include the Ann Connor Brimer Award for children's literature. "Mr. Manuel Jenkins" is included in her story collecton The Leaving (Anansi, 1991).
Kim La Fave, a Governor General's Award-winning artist, is the illustrator of Amos's Sweater (by Janet Lunn) -- winner of the Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award and the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award for illustration -- Follow That Star (by Kenneth Oppel), I Am Small (by Cherrie Fitch), the bestselling The Bones and Skeleton Book (by Steven Cumbaa) and many other children's books. He lives in Roberts Creek, BC.
