The Magician's Boy by Susan Cooper

Author:Susan Cooper
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Published: 2003-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

Thump, thump, thump, came the Giant’s feet.

The Boy stood there shaking.

“Fee fi fo fum,” boomed the Giant, really close now. “I smell—”

He stopped suddenly, and his voice dropped to a hopeful whisper.

“—chocolate?”

The Boy couldn’t believe what he was hearing. Very fast, he pulled Little Red Riding Hood’s bag of chocolate chip cookies out of his pocket.

“Have a cookie, Giant!” he said, and he held one up in the air, reaching as high as he possibly could.

The Giant bent down, a long long way down, and took the cookie between his finger and thumb. It was a big cookie, but in his big hand it looked like a tiny button. The Giant put out his huge purple tongue, which took the cookie into his enormous mouth.

“Mmmmm!” said the Giant happily.

The Boy called up to him, “Please, have you seen Saint George?”

The Giant snorted. “Saint George? That Dragon-chaser? If he came up here, I’d eat him for breakfast!”

“Have another cookie,” said the Boy quickly, and held one up. It went away on the tip of the big purple tongue, and the Giant made his happy noise again. It seemed to the Boy a very good time to leave, before the Giant might get cross again.

“Here, have all of them!” he said, and he emptied the bag of chocolate chip cookies into the grass. With a great crash the Giant went down on his hands and knees, and while he was trying to pick up the cookies with his big clumsy fingers, the Boy ran back into the cornfield, found the beanstalk, and began climbing down.

He went down from leaf stem to leaf stem, much faster than he had come up. Down, down, down, he went. He was so pleased to be getting away from the Giant that he didn’t look where he was going—until there was a terrible snarling roar below him, and he felt a great tug at the bottom of one leg of his jeans.

He looked down. A huge wolf was there, right under his feet at the bottom of the beanstalk. It spat out a piece of the Boy’s jeans and turned to jump up again. The Boy hastily climbed back up several leaf stems, and held on tight.

Snarling, the wolf leaped at him, snapping its jaws. Its teeth looked very big and very sharp.

“You warned her, you little weasel!” howled the wolf. “You told her! And she ran!”

The Boy was delighted. “Good for her!” he said.

The wolf snarled with fury. “You spoiled everything! The wolf wants to eat Red Riding Hood!”

“Not this time!” said the Boy. He held tightly to the beanstalk, as the wolf leaped up at him again, biting at the air.

“I’ll eat you instead!” the wolf hissed. “I can wait!”

It lay down at the bottom of the beanstalk, panting. Its long red tongue hung out over its sharp white teeth, and its bright eyes glared up at the Boy.

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