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I Live in Giantland (2025)

I Live in Giantland (2025)

Birna Danielsdottir
2025
32 pages
Children's Books
0-4 years
Children's Highlights

Do you sometimes feel like nothing fits you? That everything is either too big, too far away, or way too high up? Then maybe you live in GIANTLAND! I Live in Giantland is a wonderful story about being small in the world of grown-ups—about all the challenges little people face, but also the marvelous things that appear when you look at the world from a child’s perspective.

"A warm, beautiful, and sincere narrative in which the author plays with form, colour, and perspective. The work is a beautifully illustrated story told from a child’s point of view, showing a young protagonist who refuses to be held back by anything." THE JURY OF THE ICELANDIC LITERARY PRIZE, WHEN NOMINATED

Reviews

“Pictures and text work hand in hand to tell the story, capturing the child’s perspective, Inner world, and imagination in an original and inventive way. The illustrations are created using a wide variety of techniques [...] They are full of endless little details to discover, whether it’s a forgotten licorice candy tucked under the sofa or children’s drawings that pop up in surprising (and sometimes slightly inappropriate) places. I Live in Giantland is a delightful book that both young and old will surely enjoy reading again and again.”

FROM THE JURY OF THE ICELANDIC CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD

"The text... is light and entertaining, there is playful humor in every line, and both children and adults enjoy it. Furthermore, the illustrations are incredibly unique and beautiful; they manage to capture that childlike cheerfulness and joy of play, while also being genuinely successful works of art."

SA, LESTRARKLEFINN

⭐⭐⭐⭐ (four stars out of five) "Children should definitely connect well with this experience that Birna presents in an entertaining way... Birna succeeds very well in this book, both with the text and the illustrations, which add a great deal to the text and amusingly show the children's perspective in the world of adults ... Playfulness and lightness reign supreme."

KHK, MORGUNBLADID DAILY