The Story Giant. Brian Patten

      THE STORY GIANT

      BY

      BRIAN PATTEN

       Dedication

      For Linda Cookson

      And in memory of Adrian Henri

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Dedication

Part One

The First Story

The Man Who Killed Two Thieves With a Chicken

How Wars Begin

The Little Monster That Grew and Grew

The Tramp and the Outcome of War

The Difference Between Heaven and Hell

When Immortality was Lost

Supremacy

John and Paul

The Man who Bored People to Death

       The Spirit-Foxes

       Hope

       The Clothes That Were Invited to Dinner

       A Simple Trick

       Degrees of Sorrow and Happiness

       The Shadow

       A Handful of Corn

       The Lamp

       The Place Ahead

       The Monster in the Desert

       The Dragon Slayer’s Mum

       Tiddalik the Frog

       The Owl’s Trick

       Brer Rabbit and Brer Alligator

       The Talking Skull

       Man is Cunning, and Cunning is Man

       The Human Tongue

       The Band of Gold

       Worry

       Three of a Kind

       Death and the Trickster’s Name

       The Unfinished Story

       Dame Goody’s Eye

       Part Two

       The Scent of Knowledge

       Gratitude

       Jan Coo

       Wistman’s Wood

       The Man Who Listened to the Lion

       Fear

       The Chicken That Laid a Goat

       A Girl in the Rain

       The Trickster’s Knife

       Slad, Not Vlad

       The Man Who Threw Away his Child

       The Man Who Followed his Dream

       Wealth

       Mrs Beppo’s Magic Bag

       Death and the Poet

       The Owls That Could Not See Beyond the Ruins

       The Story Giant

       Keep Reading

       Source Notes

       About the Author

       Also