Kidsnatched from her orphange by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.

Giant John enjoys working for the king and queen at the castle until his friends the fairies come looking for him and almost ruin everything.

In this story told in rhyme, a young girl brings home an unusual friend for lunch.

George the giant, known for wearing his old patched clothes, finally buys new ones, but then gives them away to some needy animals.

Pepper and Jake, sister and brother shepherds, match wits with the giant, Urk, who regularly floods their valley with his dirty washwater.

"When Princess Harriet climbs an enormous beanstalk, she finds an even bigger surprise--a giant rabbit is keeping a goose and a girl who is half-harp-half-hamster as prisoner, and it's up to Harriet to save the day"--

Once selfish giant welcomes the children to his previously forbidden garden and is eventually rewarded by an unusual tiny child.

Nick, Julie, Laurie, and their friends try to prevent a hydra from destroying Florida.

In this humorous version of the traditional tale, Jack's magic beanstalk produces so many beans that soon everyone in the village is sick of eating them, and mad at Jack, and when he climbs the beanstalk he finds that Mr. Giant is equally fed up with beans-- but fortunately Mrs. Giant suggests a solution to their diet problem.

Relates the tale of Jack who, after trading his mother's milk cow for magic beans, climbs a beanstalk to seek his missing father in the land of giants.