by Sandra Saer

The beautiful illustrations to these nine tales bring to life the gentle, fun-loving giant and the bustling, houseproud, scolding mouse. But for all their differences, the pair live together happily (well, usually!).

Price: £9.95
ISBN: 978-0-9534611-2-7

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About this book..

'It is not easy to imagine a giant and a mouse living together. But I know a giant and a mouse who did.'

So begins this delightful book, The Giant and the Mouse. The beautiful illustrations to the nine tales in it bring to life the fun-loving giant – who enjoys the simple things in life, like picking and counting buttercups in the field – and the bustling, house-proud, scolding mouse. Yet – for all their differences – the pair live happily together (well, usually!).

The stories are for children aged four to eight, but they can be read to three-year-olds, as they are easy to understand. They are being read by the author to enthusiastic primary-school children up and down the country.

The Giant and the Mouse is being hailed as ‘a new children’s classic’

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About the Author..

Sandra Saer started writing at the age of seven. Trained as a reporter on The Chester Chronicle, she crossed the city to become Chester Zoo’s first press officer. She went on to work as a writer, broadcaster and book publicist in London, Paris and Madrid. As a poet, local historian, editor, publisher and bookseller, Sandra has spent a happy life as a wordsmith.

THE GIANT AND THE MOUSE stories were first told to Ben – her five-year-old son – and his classmates, twenty-eight years ago. ‘I had not an idea in my head’, she recalls. ‘But from somewhere, looking down at that sea of expectant faces, I heard myself saying: “Once upon a time, there were a giant and a mouse. They lived together in a house shaped like a kneesock…” And away I went! It was the purest writer’s inspiration I have ever had.’

The stories were soon written down for her four young children. Now that they have grown up, she has finally found the time to bring the stories to a wider readership.

Sandra lives in Watersfield, West Sussex

About the Illustration..

About the Illustrator

Martin Hargreaves was born in 1963, and studied at Brighton College of Art. He has been working as a freelance artist and illustrator since 1987.

Apart from undertaking advertising commissions, he has illustrated several books. These include Gulliver’s Travels for Dorling Kindersley; David Copperfield and A Tale of Two Cities for Oxford University Press; Mistress Masham’s Repose for the Antique Collector’s Club; and Oliver Twist and Little Women for Dalmatian Press.

Martin lives in Winchelsea, East Sussex.