I'm reading AVI - Here comes the giant! (AVI-E4)

‘The giant eats children.’ ‘He has locked up his wife.’ ‘His dog is as big as a monster.’ These are all things that are said about the giant. When Guus, Lente and Amir’s ball ends up in his garden, someone has to get it. But who dares?

Lente, Guus and Amir are playing football on the square.
Then the ball goes over a wall and lands in the giant’s garden.
Terrible things are said about the giant.
That he eats children raw, for example.
Nevertheless, Guus climbs over the wall to get the ball.
But fifteen minutes later he still hasn’t returned …