Product Description: Beautifully narrated by the author, Kathleen T. Pelley. People say that Rabbie, the carpenter's son, is a dreamer, but the boy says he works from his heart, carving "not what is, but what could be." When Rabbie goes to sell his carvings in a far-off town, he finds the townspeople besieged by a fierce and destructive giant...read more

At his chaotic workshop in his busy home, Mr. McGregor finds inspiration all around him to build crazy inventions of all shapes and sizes, but when he is sent to work in a private office in the middle of a city by the Royal Society of Inventors, Mr. McGregor's creative spirit suddenly enters a major dry spell for reasons he cannot understand. 20,000 first printing.

Long ago in Scotland, a talented young wood carver named Rabbie suggests a way to handle a giant who is terrorizing a far-off town--treat the giant as if he were a king, and he might behave like one.