Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts

Author(s): Craig Phillips

Graphic Novels

A cobbler girl tricks the Wawel Dragon, after all the king's knights fail. The Polar Bear King loses his skin. Momotaro, born from a peach, defies the ogres everyone else is too scared to face. Snow White and Rose Red make friends with a bear.


From Poland to Iceland, Japan to Germany, these 10 fairytales from across the globe re-told as comics will have you enthralled. Giants Trolls Witches Beasts You will encounter them all in this visual cornucopia of a book.


Product Information

Winner of the 2018 NZ Children's Book Awards - the Russell Clark Award for Illustration

Craig Phillips is a freelance illustrator, who works for publishers all around the world from his New Zealand studio. His first picture book was Megumi and the Bear (written by Irma Gold), inspired by travels to the snowy wonderland of Northern Japan. He has also created rock art posters for bands such as Queens of the Stone Age, DJ Shadow and the Foo Fighters. Craig has always had a great love for mythology and magic, and Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts is the book he has always wanted to make. On the rare occasions that he is not drawing, you might find him swimming in Lake Taupo or snowboarding down the majestic mountains of New Zealand.

General Fields

  • : 9781760113261
  • : Allen & Unwin
  • : Allen & Unwin Children's Books
  • : 0.752963
  • : January 2017
  • : 274mm X 210mm
  • : Australia
  • : April 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Craig Phillips
  • : Paperback
  • : 517
  • : English
  • : 741.5994
  • : good
  • : 192
  • : YFA