Help me identify a Children's Book

November 8, 2011 12:24 PM

I need help identifying a children's book about a Giant who always oversleeps.

This has been bugging me for ages and I want to get it as a present for someone. Sadly my google-fu is failing me

Basically it a shortish kid's book from when i was young (so 80s) with the following plot:

- A giant (or maybe just a big man) keeps oversleeping
- His boss at work (it's set in a "normal" town) warns him that he keeps being late for work and needs to stop
- the giant buys the best alarm clock he can, but it doesn't wake him up.
- boss gets angrier
- the giant buys more and more alarm clocks but they don't help
- boss says he's got one last chance
- giant has even more alarm clocks. They still don't wake him up
- BUT a spider on the ceiling is so annoyed by the noise, he dangles down on a thread, tickles the giants nose so he sneezes and wakes up
- spider and giant do a deal. Each day the spider wakes the giant up with a sneeze and in return the giant let's the spider build all the webs he wants
- everybody is happy (including, presumably, his work HR who can't have been looking forward to THAT disciplinary)

Any ideas from the wiser minds and memories out there?

posted by garius to Media & Arts