When the Selfish Giant decides to build a wall around his garden to prevent the children from playing in it, it becomes barren and stuck in perpetual winter. It takes a wonderful event and the heart of a young boy for him to realize the error of his ways. A classic tale for children, `The Selfish Giant' is presented here with all of Oscar Wilde's other fairy stories - `The Happy Prince', `The Nightingale and the Rose', `The Devoted Friend', `The Remarkable Rocket', `The Young King', `The Birthday of the Infanta', `The Fisherman and His Soul' and `The Star-Child' - brought to life by Philip Waechter's bright and imaginative illustrations.

 

There are 256 pages in this book. This book was published 2015 by Alma Books Ltd .

Oscar Wilde was born in Ireland in 1854 and is known for his poetry, plays and the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray . He died in Paris in 1900. Philip Waechter was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1968 and studied Communications Design in Mainz, majoring in Illustration. He still lives in Frankfurt and works as a freelance graphic artist and is a founder member of the illustrators' group, Labor. He has illustrated numerous picture books in Germany. This is Philip's first book for Hutchinson.