THE GIAN'T HEART - BY GEORGE MacDONALD - ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR HUGHES - THE GUNSTON TRUST

A Norse Folk tale, where two small children find themselves in the house of a Giant whose great delight is to eat pudgy kids. They discover that the Giant keeps his heart outside of his body for the purposes of security and that, at this particular time, it is being kept in the nest of an eagle.The children resolve to capture his heart so that they might gain control over him in order to urge him to live a better life by, especially, not eating children.
Ages 6-8