HERE is a lavishly produced book -- ideal for a Christmas gift -- with beautiful drawings and sumptuous colour plates by award-winning Riddell. The Story Giant has spent his life collecting stories from all over the world before gathering them together in his remote castle . . . all except one.

This one has eluded him forever and, if he can't find it, then the Story Giant will be no more and how will children be able to live happily in a dull, grim storyless world?

So, the Giant draws on the help of four children from different parts of the globe into his castle to sleep and dream and exchange stories from their cultures in the hope they might piece together the missing tale.