I Kill Giants tells the story of Barbara Thorson, an acerbic
fifth-grader so consumed with fantasy that she doesn't just tell
people that she kills giants with an ancient Norse warhammer -- she
starts to believe it herself. The reasons for Barbara's troubled
behavior are revealed through the course of the book, as she learns to
reconcile her fantasy life with the real world.
In 2012, I Kill Giants writer Joe Kelley and artist J.M. Ken Niimura
received the International Manga Award, an honor given by the Japanese
Foreign Ministry to an outstanding comic book or graphic novel.