Once there was a baby in the house - and to that baby, Mum and Dad and Jill and John and Uncle Tom were giants. But little by little, that baby grew up - until

Portrays the world of activity surrounding the stump of a tree, and what happens as the seasons change and the stump grows older

A little yellow bird eases a giant's loneliness and inspires him to mend his destructive ways.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the D