Giants Beware!
2012 · book
Make way for Claudette the giant slayer in this delightful, fantastical adventure! Claudette's fondest wish is to slay a giant.But her village is so safe and quiet! What's a future giant slayer to do? With her best friend Marie (an aspiring princess), and her brother Gaston (a pastry-chef-to-be), Claudette embarks on a super-secret quest to find a giant--without parental permission. Can they find and defeat the giant before their parents find them and drag them back home? Giants Beware! offers up a wondrous, self-contained world in the tradition of the very best of Pixar. Claudette and her friends will have you laughing out loud from page one. Giants Beware! Author Q&A What was your inspiration for the book? Rafael: I'm not entirely sure. I recently went through some old sketchbooks of mine and realized that I'd been drawing a character that looked kind of like our main character, Claudette, years before we even began the book. I guess I've had this character of this girl with a lot of spunk in my subconscious for a while. I'm also really into French comics and that influenced the look quite bit. Which character do you identify with and why? Rafael: I'm not impulsive like Claudette. I'm probably most like Gaston. He thinks before taking the leap. He worries a lot. That's probably more like me. Jorge: I wish I could say I was like Marie. Marie doesn't care what other people think of her. In this book, she aspires to be a princess and other kids make fun of her, but she doesn't