Title: The Boy Who ate the World: (And the girl who saved it)
Author: Don Gillmor
Illustrator: Pierre Pratt
Ages: 5-8
Rating: 4/5
Plot: Herman Oof is a giant who is very hungry. He eats 140 hamburgers for lunch and drinks oceans when he's thirsty. That is until Sarah gets an idea to save the Earth.
Assessment: This is a funny story about excess. Herman eats so much it starts to negatively affect the people on earth. This story can be read two ways. On one hand it is about a giant who eats the world and becomes the moon. While on the other hand it is about our society's over consumption. Mr Off tellingly rebukes a scientist who fears there isn't enough food on earth for Herman, saying "this is the world, there will always be something left."
Gillmor, D. (2008). The boy who ate the world: (and the girl who saved it). Scholastic Canada, Ltd.
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