Mony yeors o9o,there wos o giont colled Finn MacGoof... Finn worked for o week.He built o bridge of stones oll the woy to Scotlond... Finn wos still fost asleep,so Únq went up to the top
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Finn MocCool story
A N C I E N T I R I S H L E G E N D
Finn, the Irish Giant, fights bullies.
The Scottish Giant is a big bully.
He's strong and mean.
Finn and his wife make a very clever plan!
OISÍtr¡ wCCnNN has written and illustrated many books for
children, including the Mad Grandad FLYERS, WiredTeeth,
The Poison Foaory and lhe Evil Hairdo.
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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
McGann, Oisin The baby giant - (Panda Legends series)
1 Children's stories
I Title 823.9',241
Trang 5Mony yeors o9o,
there wos o giont colled
Finn MacGoof.
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He wqs hoppy _ ond hoiry -
ond wos the
biggest, strongest
giont in lrelond
7
Trang 6Finn spent most of his time
fighting bullies.
But he wos o friendly mon
He wos tired of fighting
I
One doy,'I need o holidoy.he said
to his wife,
t
'Greot!'
she soid
'I'd love to go to Scotland.
But, you know,
I don't like going on boots.,
9
Trang 7c o 9 d
His wife's nome wos Úno
She wosn't scored of much,but she wos scored of the seo.
'Don't you worr/,'Finn told her
'l'll build o bridge for you.'
Trang 8So Finn went down
to the seoside
He storted digging rOCkS
out of the cliffs
ond iomming them
into the ground
Trang 9Finn worked for o week.
He built o bridge of stones
oll the woy to Scotlond
Trang 10When he got home,
Finn wos vet!, very tired
He put on
ond went
his pyjomosstroight to bed
'I'm going to sleep, Úno!'
he cqlled to his wife
'I'm oll worn out!'
Trang 11'Grond, so!' soid Uno.
'We con go
to Scotlond tomorrow,
when you're feeling better.'
'I'll moke some sondwichesond we con hove o picnic
on the new bridge
on our woy to Scotlond.You hove o nice sleep, now,ond I'll woke you up
in the morning.'
Trang 12Úno stoyed up lote,
moking o huge mountoin
Boom! Boom! Boom!
6D g,
Trang 13She thought it wos iust
the noise of the woves
She shook her heod
ond went upstoirs
'Terrible storm out there!'
she soid to Finn
But Finn wos snorin g oway
qnd didn't even heor her
The next mornifrg,the sound wos louder
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Boom! Boom!
Boom! Boom!
Trang 14Finn wos still fost asleep,
so Únq went up to
the top of the cliffs
on her own
She looked out over the seo
For out on the stone bridge,
úno sow o gigantic man
wolking towords Irelond
Trang 15The booming wos
the sound of his feet
hitting the stones
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Trang 16Úno rushed bock to the house
ond into the bedroom
'Finn, woke up!'
she cried
She shook his shoulder
'There's o greot big giontcoming from Scotlond!
He's even bigger ond hoirierthon you ore!'
2 9
2 8
Trang 17Finn woke up
very quickly!
'l know him,' he soid
'And he's os big
os two normol gionts,'Finn said
'He's nosty ond meon
ond he won't play fair.
All Scotlond is scored of him.He'll wont to fight me,
but I'm too tired for o fight.He'll beot me up for sure.'
Trang 18with o pfan.
'We'll
hove to besoid Finn
quick,'
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33
Trang 19'I'll go ond moke
the speciol buns,'
Úno told him
'You moke the boby's cot.'
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The booming got louder.The Scottish Giont's feetcrunched down
on the Irish seoside
The ground shook
Trang 20FINN MICGOOL?'
o voice roored.
.I WANT A FIGHT
AND I WANT IT NOWI
I,M NASTYAND MEAN
Trang 21Finn did not onswer.
He wos too busy moking
a big, wooden bobY's GOt.
3 8
Úno did not onswer
She wcrs too busy knitting.She wos moking
o huge bonnet ond o poir of py¡amas
with pictures ofteddy beors on them
Her special buhs were
boking in the oven
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Trang 22Their house begon to shoke
os the Scottish Giont
wolked towords it
Úno finished the
pyiomos ond bonnet
ond Finn quickly Put them on
He stuck o big soother
in his mouth ondclimbed into the cot
He pulled o blonketover himself
ond loy still
Trang 23The Scottish Giont
smoshed open the door
ond wolked in
He hod orms like tree-trunks
ond he hod o foce
Trang 24'Oh, he's out
Would you like o bun
while you woit?'
Trang 25Úno opened the oven
ond took out the troY of buns'
But these were notnormol buns
Úno hod put stones
in some of them
She gove o bun to the giont
(It hod stones in it.)
She gove o bun to Finnwho wos still hiddenunder the blonket
(Finn's bun hod no stones in it.)
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Trang 26Finn took out his soother
ond popped the bun
into his mouth
He ote it in one big bite
But when the giont
bit into his bun,
it broke his tooth.
'Ouch! Ooh! Eeeh!'screomed the Scottish Giant.'These ore hord buns!'
'Are they?' Úno soid
'Well, the baby loves them.'
Trang 27She gove Finn onother bun.
(Finn's bun hod no stones in it.)
He chomped it down eosily
Úno gove the giont
o second bun
(This one hod stones in it too.)
50
'Ouch!'
the giont soid,
os he broke some more teeth.'Whot
kind of o Ch¡ld eats
buns like these?'
5 l
Trang 28The giont stood uP.
He stomped over to the cot
to get o closer look
ot this bobY
He Ieoned over
the side of the cot
ond stored down
ot the big bodY
under the blonket
Finn MocCool's babyZ'
he osked
'Look how big fre
'Yes!
And he's only
two years old,'
Úno told him
Trang 29,Ga-g?,' soid Finn.
The giont PuIIed bock the
blonket ond stored'
He plucked the soother
out of Finn's mouth'
'Ga'gá!' Finn growled'
He jumped uP
He wos still dressed
in his teddy-beor PYiomosqnd his big bonnet
He opened his mouth wideond b¡t the giont
on the hond
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Trang 30screomed the giont'
'Thot bobY neorlY
bit mY hond off!' \
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l/-Finn grobbed his soother
ond put it bock
Trang 31'Da-dá!' soid Finn' The giant stored
ot the huge thing in the cot
If this wcts Finn MocCool's
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$.g
baby, whot kind of monster
wos Finn MocCool?
Trang 32The Scottish Giont
did nOt wont to find out'
He ron down to the seosideond ocross the stone bridge.Then he ron oll the woy
bock to Scotlond
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They hod o picnicdown of the seosideond dronk opple iuiceond ote buns
with no stones in them
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