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The Selfish Giant St Sylvester’s, Elgin, Scotland. Comenius Project September 2010 Every day the children used to go and play in the giant’s garden. It was a beautiful garden with flowers which danced and sparkled through the tall green grass beneath the blossoms and fruit trees. One day the giant returned. “What are you doing here?” he shouted in a very gruff voice. My garden is my own garden and nobody will play in it but me!” The children ran away and the giant built a high wall around the garden with a sign. He was a very Selfish Giant! Now the children had nowhere to play. “How happy we were !” They sighed to one another as the wandered around the high wall of the giant’s garden. The Spring returned, and all over the country there were little blossoms and little birds. Only in the giant’s garden it was still winter… Without the children’s laughter the trees forgot to blossom and the trees stood silent with frost. Only the snow, wind and hail were happy and decided to stay in the garden all year round. But the Spring never came, nor the Summer. The Autumn gave golden fruit to every garden, but to the Giants garden she gave none. He is too selfish, she said. One morning the Giant was lying awake in bed when he heard some lovely music. It was so long since he had heard a bird sing in his garden that it seemed to him to be the most beautiful music in the world.  Then he noticed that the north wind and hail were quiet and the air was filled with a sweet perfume. Then he saw the most wonderful sight… Through a little hole in the wall the children had crept in, and they were sitting in the branches of the trees. And the trees were so glad to have the children back again that they had covered themselves with blossoms, and the birds twittered happily. Only in one corner it was still Winter. In it was a little boy. He was so small that he could not reach up to the branches of the tree, and he was wandering all round i