Hi everyone,
I became curious about other places where poems and stories from THE BOOK OF GIANT STORIES have appeared in anthologies, textbooks, and other venues so I did a quick copy and paste search. I haven’t updated the full list of secondary uses from my published books since 2016 so it’s rather out of date. I know the grand total for everything exceeds 200 but it takes an enormous amount of time to update and I never seem to think I have the time to spare. Anyway, here’s what I found for GIANTS.
THE BOOK OF GIANT STORIES APPEARANCES IN ANTHOLOGIES 1976 The Little Boy’s Secret from The Book of Giant Stories Tapestry (1976). By 4 editors. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1978 The Book of Giant Stories Honey for a Child’s Heart Revised (1978). By Gladys Hunt. Zondervan. 1978 The Little Boy’s Secret from The Book of Giant Stories Step Right Up! Scott, Foresman Basics in Reading (1978). By several editors. Scott, Foresman and Company. 1985 The Giant Who Threw Tantrums from The Book of Giant Stories Dream Keepers (1985). By 4 editors. McGraw-Hill Ryerson. 1985 A Careless Giant from The Book of Giant Stories Expressways, A Basal Language Program Level 5 (1985). By Lois Brown Easton and Marvin Klein. The Economy Company. 1986 The Giant Who Threw Tantrums from The Book of Giant Stories Discoveries (1986). Numerous editors. Houghton Mifflin. 1986 The Little Boy’s Secret from The Book of Giant Stories The Happy Birthday Book (1986). By David Jackson. Oxford University Press. 1987 Den Lille Guttens Hemmelighet (The Little Boy’s Secret) from The Book of Giant Stories Den Stopre Godnatt Boka (1987). By Ellen Seip Stubbe and Turid Opsahl. 1988 The Giant Who Threw Tantrums from The Book of Giant Stories A Treasury of Dragons, Giants and Monsters (1988). By Caroline Royds. Kingfisher Book. 1989 The Little Boy’s Secret from The Book of Giant Stories Super Stories for the Very Young (1989). By Sally Grindley. Kingfisher. 1989 The Little Boy’s Secret from The Book of Giant Stories More Stories for the Very Young (1989). By Sally Grindley. Kingfisher. 1989 Der Kleine Junge und sein Geheimnis (The Little Boy’s Secret) from The Book of Giant Stories Komm, erzahl mir was! (1989). By Agnes Niegl. Bundesverlag. 1989 There Once Was a Giant Named Groans from The Book of Giant Stories 1989 The Giant Who Threw Tantrums from The Book of Giant Stories Houghton Mifflin Literary Readers Book 2 (1989). By several editors. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1990 The Little Boy’s Secret from The Book of Giant Stories Listening Tapes (1990). By Bill Moore and Mary Moore. Ginn :Publishing Canada. 1990 The Giant Who Threw Tantrums from The Book of Giant Stories A Treasury of Stories for Five Year Olds (1990). By Edward and Nancy Blishen. Kingfisher Books. 1991 The Giant Who Threw Tantrums from The Book of Giant Stories Stories for Bedtime (1991). By Fiona Waters. Orchard. 1991 The Little Boy’s Secret from The Book of Giant Stories A Bucketful of Stories for Six Year Olds (1991). By Pat Thomson. Doubleday. 1991 The Giant Who Threw Tantrums from The Book of Giant Stories Tick Tock Tales, 3 Minute Stories (1991). By Sian Hardy. Rainbow Books. 1992 The Giant Who Threw Tantrums from The Book of Giant Stories A Treasury of Giant and Monster Stories (1992). By Jane Olliver. Kingfisher. 1992 The Book of Giant Stories, cited Hey! Listen to This! Stories to Read Aloud (1992). By Jim Trelease. New York, New York: Penguin Books. 1992 Kleine Jongen Heeft Een Geheim (The Little Boy’s Secret) from The Book of Giant Stories De Verhalentuin, Verhalen voor Jonge Kinderen (1992). By Bregje Boonstra. Ploegsma. 1992 The Giant Who Threw Tantrums from The Book of Giant Stories The Kingfisher Treasury of Stories for Children (1992). By Nancy and Edward Blishen. Kingfisher Books. 1994 The Giant Who Threw Tantrums from The Book of Giant Stories The Oxford Treasury of Children’s Stories (1994). By Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark. Oxford University Press. 1998 The Giant Who Threw Tantrums from The Book of Giant Stories Houghton Mifflin, Spelling and Vocabulary (1998). By Shane Templeton. 1999 Little Boy’s Secret Magical Stories for 6 Year Olds. By Helen Paiba. MacMillan U.K. 2000 The Giant Who Threw Tantrums from The Book of Giant Stories Magical Stories for 5 Year Olds (2000). By Helen Paiba. Macmillan. 2001 The Giant Who Threw Tantrums from The Book of Giant Stories Dynamic English Grade 5 (2001). By Gus de Villiers, Helene Strauss, and Sylvia van Straaten. Kagiso Education. 2002 From The Book of Giant Stories Hey! Listen to This: Stories to Read (2002). By Jim Trelease. Penguin. 2003 The Giant Who Threw Tantrums from The Book of Giant Stories The Kingfisher Treasury of Monster Stories (2003). By Jane Olliver and Annabel Spencely. Kingfisher. 2004 The Giant Who Threw Tantrums from The Book of Giant Stories Kingfisher Stories for Five Year Olds (2004). By Edward Blishen, Nancy Blishen, and Polly Noakes. Kingfisher 2005 The Giant Who Threw Tantrums The Kingfisher Treasury of Giant and Monster Stories. By Jane Oliver and Annabel Spenceley. Kingfisher Books, Ltd. 2009 The Book of Giant Stories Pan Books: Webster’s Timeline History, 1935-2007. Icon Group International. 2010 Book of Giant Stories Honey for a Child’s Heart: The Imaginative Use of Books in Family Life (2010). By Gladys Hunt. Zondervan.
THE BOOK OF GIANT STORIES sold about 700,000 copies in hardback, mostly through Book Club. It was translated into a dozen languages and sold especially well in Japan. I have no way to know how many copies the books on this list sold. Initial printings have ranged from a few thousand to 50,000 or more. I used to be contacted now and then by story tellers wanting to arrange for permission to include stories from the book in their programs. One was a singer. There was also a symphonic composer. That hasn’t happened lately. I suspect that some story tellers assume that the book has been around so long it must have fallen into public domain. I’ve heard The Little Boy’s Secret described as a classic, as in passed down through the ages. Okay, I’m old, but really people! It won a Christopher Medal (which I’m fond of repeating) but never received another award.
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