Help me track down this book from childhood about giant animals!
May 10, 2012 9:27 AM   Subscribe

ChildhoodBookFilter: Help me correctly recall/find this awesome book I had as a kid about giant prehistoric animals.

I had a really neat book when I was a kid that I believe was called "GIANT". I can see the cover in my mind--I think it was like, a blue whale's face and had the word "GIANT" in yellow-gold lettering across the top. The book was about mostly prehistoric and some modern animals that were/are, as you might guess from the title, GIANT. Like the biggest dinosaurs, mastadons and mammoths, freaky rhino-type things, etc. They'd have a few of the animals on each double-page spread (I think there may have even been some fold-out pages) seen from the side, as if they were all walking in the same direction, and I seem to recall them also including a human being on each page for scale.

I am 90% sure this is the correct title (if anything, maybe it was GIANTS). The problem is that when you search for "kids book giant animals", well, you're casting quite a wide net because Google thinks you're using giant as a descriptor for the book (have you ever tried searching for music from the band "Live"?? Super tricky because it just brings back live music from anyone) or, I get result for books about giant animals but I have definitely not seen the one I am looking for.

If this sounds familiar to you--and more importantly, if you know where I can find it--you win the Awesome Person Award of the Day! :)
posted by lovableiago to Media & Arts (5 answers total)
 
Best answer: Giants of Land, Sea & Air: Past and Present (1986)?
posted by MonkeyToes at 9:43 AM on May 10, 2012 [1 favorite]


Best answer: If so, try here.
posted by MonkeyToes at 9:45 AM on May 10, 2012


Response by poster: I gasped when I saw this--thank you so much! This is definitely it; and I definitely checked Amazon so I have no idea why I couldn't find it. Hurray!!!!!!!
posted by lovableiago at 9:50 AM on May 10, 2012


Type in '"giants" title kids book' @ google image search. You'll find it in the first row.
posted by travelwithcats at 9:53 AM on May 10, 2012


You're welcome. FWIW, I plugged some combination of 'title giants "children's book" science nature' into Google's image search, and the cover was one of the first few results. The 'S' on the title was key. Happy reading!
posted by MonkeyToes at 9:54 AM on May 10, 2012


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