Odd and the Frost Giants

Neil Gaiman

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Mar 3, 2008 - Juvenile Fiction - 112 pages

Odd's luck has been bad so far. He lost his father on a Viking expedition, his foot was crushed beneath a tree, and the winter seems to be going on for ever. But when Odd flees to the woods and releases a trapped bear, his luck begins to change. The eagle, bear and fox he encounters reveal they're actually Norse gods, trapped in animal form by the evil frost giants who have conquered Asgard, the city of the gods … Can a twelve-year-old boy reclaim Thor's hammer, outwit the frost giants and release the gods?

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Review: Odd and the Frost Giants

User Review  - Joy - Goodreads

For some reason I didn't read the synopsis of this book before I dived in so I didn't realize that this was a retelling of the DC Comic. Okay, a retooling of the legend of Thor and the Frost Giants ...

Review: Odd and the Frost Giants

User Review  - Harold Ogle - Goodreads

A short chapter book for children that Gaiman wrote (it's implied that he wrote it in one day as part of World Book Day), it's another story set in the world of Norse mythology, and reads a good deal ...

About the author

Neil Gaiman is the bestselling, multi-prize-winning author of many books for adults and children, among them novels and graphic novels, including the Sandman comic series which has sold over a million copies in hardback and paperback. Neil is also a screenplay writer with Stardustand Beowulf both being released in the autumn of 2007. He is British and lives in America.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Odd and the Frost Giants
• Author: Neil Gaiman
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2008
• ISBN: 0747595380, 9780747595380
• Length: 112 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General; Juvenile Fiction / Animals / General; Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic; Juvenile Fiction / Legends, Myths, Fables / General