JACK

JACK is a mischief-maker. He doesn’t believe tall tales of giants who live somewhere up beyond the sky until he faces the devastating reality of their raids.

When they swoop down, they sweep back up everything The Village relies upon – crops, livestock, even peoples’ loved ones. When his Papa is taken, Jack trades his family’s last cow for beans that grow a stalk he can climb straight up into the sky in search of Papa. There, he finds the world of the giants, which turns out to be The Kingdom, populated by old favorites and terribly ruled by King Barf. (For readers of RUMP, incidentally, Jack’s world is the one underfoot, and here Jack is no bigger than Rump’s thumb.) LIESL SHURTLIFF grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah as the fourth child in a crazy combined family of eight. She studied Music, Dance, and Theater at Brigham Young University, where she earned her B.F.A. Shurtliff is the author of several short stories for young readers published in Guideposts Sweet 16, Hopscotch for Girls, and The Friend. She writes book reviews for Deseret News and she’s a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Liesl currently resides in Chicago, Illinois with her husband and three children. Her website can be found at www.lieslshurtliff.com.