This story is taken from book of Fairy Tales and Narratives written just for beginners. The Title of which is Märchen und Erzählungen für Anfänger, edited by H. A. Guerber. These stories are all great if you are looking for a better understanding of how to build up sentences with an ever increasing vocabulary. What they are not is a set of ground-breaking forms of literary genius. Although, I happen to think highly of them in terms of useful educational material. :) They are repetitive, but deliberately so. Just as the editor mentions in the Preface.  This story, Number 5 in the sequence, is not only a repetitive telling, it is also very long. It is almost like having two stories in one. 5. Der Riese und Das Kind is quite the long, drawn out formulation. It took about 20 minutes of reading to get through the 4 pages of story. I hope you will find some usefulness in my reading of "The Giant and the Child". To read it for yourself visit this link: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35794 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/learnitslow/message