The Giant, O'Brien Cay Gibson learning a little about history

learning a little about history and geology while puzzling over lit-up rock formations said to resemble anything from Niagara Falls to the Capitol dome

but in highly intuitive children (and adults)

the Spanish Civil War

and what sends him running in the other direction

The Giant, O'Brien Cay Gibson learning a little about historyNew York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year London, 1782: center of science and commerce, home to the newly rich and the desperately poor. In the midst of it all is the Giant, O'Brien, a freak of nature, a man of song and story who trusts in myths, fairies, miracles, and little people. He has come from Ireland to exhibit his size for money. O'Brien's opposite is a man of science, the famed anatomist John