Publisher's Synopsis
- I Kill Giants tells the story of Barbara Thorson, an acerbicfifth-grader so consumed with fantasy that she doesn't just tell people that shekills giants with an ancient Norse warhammer - she starts to believe itherself. The reasons for Barbara's troubled behavior are revealed through thecourse of the book, as she learns to reconcile her fantasy life with the realworld.
- In 2012, I Kill Giants writer Joe Kelley and artist J.M. Ken Niimurareceived the International Manga Award, an honor given by the Japanese ForeignMinistry to an outstanding comic book or graphic novel.