delz 's review for:

Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman

5.0

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Odd and the Frost Giants is an awesome little book. I love the Norse God stories and in Gaiman's book the protagonist is Odd a small boy whose father died in a very unheroic way. In his desire to prove himself the man of the house he takes his father's very big ax to chop wood, but instead crushes his leg and is left crippled. Eventually his mother remarries a man with many sons and daughters who are cruel to their crippled step-brother. So one day Odd decides to leave home to find solace in the woods in his fathers old woodcutting hut. While he's out there alone he meets a fox and very curious he follows the fox who leads him to a bear stuck between two trees. After Odd frees the bear an Eagle appears and they all accompany him back to the hut. Odd has a many surprises and adventures coming and in Gaiman's short biography in the back of the book he mentions the possibility of more Odd stories in the future which would be really terrific.