When Giants Come to Play

This book is really fun and can help tap into a child's imagination. I like that all of the illistrations are in water color to add to the imaginary world. This book is definitely based on the pictures because it would be hard for kids to imagine what the giants are really like without seeing the pictures. It is fun that the little girl is hiding in the giants shirt pocket when they are playing hide and seek. This may help children with understanding how big these giants really are. The author portrays the giants as being really friendly by showing them play with the little girl and not try to hurt anyone. This may change a child's perception whom may have thought that all giants were mean and scary before reading this book. It is funny when they are picking peaches and the giants just pick up the tree from the ground and shake the peaches out. It is also really comical that they use Anna's sister to play dolls and her brother in his car to play cars. When the giants leave Anna at her house at the end of the day, it made me think that they come to play very rarely. I like that in this imaginary world, anything can happen. So when Anna hopes that they will stay, the last page shows them sleeping in her front yard.