Every Giant was once a child. They weren’t always that large, they must have started out small and fragile like all of us once where. The short story, “The Giant’s House”, by Elizabeth McCracken shows us a part of an abnormally large teenager, James, who wants to stop himself from being so “Giant”. James wasn’t always excepting of himself and his largeness. He wanted a cure for it, a way to stop it. This essay will explain how he searched for answers in his small-town library, and the sympathetic librarian Peggy helped James come to terms with their being no cure for his tallness. In the year 1955 Peggy was asked a rather odd question by James. He wanted to know if there were any books in the library about people “Like him” referring to his