the baby giant

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

A new version of o fovourite

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!

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Words ond pictures Oisín McGonn

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First pubüshed 2009 by The O'Brien Press Ltd,

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McGann, Oisin The baby giant - (Panda Legends series)

1 Children's stories

I Title 823.9',241

Mony 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

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Finn spent most of his time

fighting bullies.

But he wos o friendly mon

He wos tired of fighting

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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.,

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c 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.'

So Finn went down

to the seoside

He storted digging rOCkS

out of the cliffs

ond iomming them

into the ground

Finn worked for o week.

He built o bridge of stones

oll the woy to Scotlond

When 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!'

'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.'

Úno stoyed up lote,

moking o huge mountoin

Boom! Boom! Boom!

6D g,

She 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!

Finn 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

The booming wos

the sound of his feet

hitting the stones

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Úno 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!'

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2 8

Finn 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.'

with o pfan.

'We'll

hove to besoid Finn

quick,'

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33

'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

FINN MICGOOL?'

o voice roored.

.I WANT A FIGHT

AND I WANT IT NOWI

I,M NASTYAND MEAN

Finn 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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Their 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

The Scottish Giont

smoshed open the door

ond wolked in

He hod orms like tree-trunks

ond he hod o foce

'Oh, he's out

Would you like o bun

while you woit?'

Úno 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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Finn 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.'

She 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.)

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'Ouch!'

the giont soid,

os he broke some more teeth.'Whot

kind of o Ch¡ld eats

buns like these?'

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The 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

,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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screomed the giont'

'Thot bobY neorlY

bit mY hond off!' \

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l/-Finn grobbed his soother

ond put it bock

'Da-dá!' soid Finn' The giant stored

ot the huge thing in the cot

If this wcts Finn MocCool's

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baby, whot kind of monster

wos Finn MocCool?

The 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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