“When Jumbeelia throws a bimple (bean) over the edge of Groil, the land of giants, a bimplestonk (beanstalk) grows overnight. Jumbeelia descends on the bimplestonk to see if the iggly plops (humans) really do exist or a just a part of story as her mother insists. Jumbeelia not only discovers that iggly plops exist, she puts three of them in her collecting bag with an iggly blebber (sheep) and takes them back to her home in Groil.
Stephen, Collette and Poppy Jones are the humans (iggly plops) that Jumbeelia has collected. They now find themselves living in Jumbeelia’s bedroom in her doll house subject to the whims of their captor. They can’t communicate since none of them speak Groilish, the language of the giants. Escape seems impossible given the relative sizes of human children and a giant house. Even the stairs seem like huge cliffs to the Jones children. When Jumbeelia’s mean brother, Zab, comes home from school the children’s troubles multiply. How will they ever escape and find their way back home?
For readers who enjoy fractured fairy tales or who have wondered what life in the land of giants would be like. A Groilish–English/English–Groilish dictionary is included.
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AndreaGordon wrote this review Thursday, October 4, 2007.
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