George, kasabanın en hırpani devi, kıyafetleri ( bir gecelik ve bir sandalet) eski püskü, dökülüyor. Birgün üzerine uyacak boyutta kıyafetler satan bir dükkan görür ve baştan ayağa yenilenir, artık o kasabanın "en şık devi" dir. Yolda rastladığı boynu üşüyen zürafaya boynunu ısıtması için kravatını vermesiyle başlayan ve nice hayvanla devam eden paylaşma silsilesi George´u yarı çıplak ve soğuktan donar bir hale getirir...

Paylaşma ve yardımlaşma üzerine Julia Donaldson ve Axel Scheffler ikilisinden küçüklerin çok sevdiği tekrarların bolca bulunduğu, güzel bir hikaye. Sanırım çevirmen Yıldırım Türker olunca, Julia Donaldson kitaplarının tadı daha iyi çıkıyor. Kitap 3 yaş üzeri için uygun, Popcore yayınlarından..

Orjinal adı : "The Smartest Giant in Town" bu isimle Youtube´dan videosunu da izlemenizi tavsiye ederim. Kitabın yeni baskısı yok fakat hala piyasada az da olsa var, ben geçtiğimiz ay edindim.

She was born in 1948. She grew up in London and studied Drama and French at Bristol University.

She worked for a few years in publishing and as a teacher, while also writing and performing songs and street theatre with her husband Malcolm, and writing and directing two musicals for children. She then combined a career writing songs for children’s television with bringing up a family.

In 1993, one of her songs was made into a book, A Squash and a Squeeze. Since then she has written over a hundred books and plays for children and teenagers, including the award-winning rhyming stories The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom, The Snail and the Whale and Zog, all illustrated by Axel Scheffler, which are among the UK’s best-selling picture books.

Julia has also worked with different illustrators, among them Lydia Monks, Nick Sharratt and David Roberts, and has written several young fiction titles, including three books about Princess Mirror-Belle, who is the badly-behaved reflection of a well-behaved girl. Her novel for teenagers, Running on the Cracks, came out in 2009 and won the Nasen Inclusive Children’s Book Award.

Axel Scheffler Kimdir?

Axel Scheffler is the best-selling illustrator of many favourite children’s

picture books, including the award-winning The Gruffalo, which has been translated into over 40 languages. He was born in Hamburg, but now lives in London, where his artwork is increasingly inspired by his young daughter. He works in an attic studio overlooking a peaceful garden with a walnut tree and a family of foxes.