Odd and the frost giants

Description:

In this inventive, short, yet perfectly formed novel inspired by traditional Norse mythology, Neil Gaiman takes readers on a wild and magical trip to the land of giants and gods and back.In a village in ancient Norway lives a boy named Odd, and he's had some very bad luck: His father perished in a Viking expedition; a tree fell on and shattered his leg; the endless freezing winter is making villagers dangerously grumpy.Out in the forest Odd encounters a bear, a fox, and an eagle-three creatures with a strange story to tell.Now Odd is forced on a stranger journey than he had imagined-a journey to save Asgard, city of the gods, from the Frost Giants who have invaded it.It's going to take a very special kind of twelve-year-old boy to outwit the Frost Giants, restore peace to the city of gods, and end the long winter.Someone cheerful and infuriating and clever . . .Someone just like Odd.

subjects: Fiction,  Giants,  Norse Mythology,  Odin (Norse deity),  Thor (Norse deity),  Heroes,  Loki (Norse deity),  Juvenile Fiction,  Science Fiction,  The gates of Asgard,  Afterwards,  Four transformations and a meal,  Children's fiction,  Gods, fiction,  Animals, fiction,  Fantasy fiction,  Heroes, fiction,  Giants, fiction,  Norse Gods,  Animals,  nyt:chapter-books=2009-10-11,  New York Times bestseller,  Children's stories

People: Loki (Norse deity),  Odin (Norse deity),  Thor (Norse deity)