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Jack and the Beanstalk


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No. of pages 40

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Great for age 3-6 years
Using clever cutaway views, architectural diagrams and bird's-eye and worm's eye views, this is the retelling of the magical story of the young lad who sold the family cow for a few beans. The beans grew into a mighty plant that reached as high as the sky.

 

There are 40 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2002 by Abrams .

Al Lorenz has illustrated a number of Abrams titles, including Jack and the Beanstalk, Trojan Horse, Journey to Cahokia, Buried Blueprints, Metropolis and House and has won numerous awards for his art.

This book contains the following story:

Jack and the Beanstalk
Fee fie fo fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread'. Lazy Jack lives with his poor mother in a little shack. They are so poor that one day she sends Jack off to market to sell their cow so they can buy food. On the way to market Jack meets a stranger who persuades him to part with the cow for some magic beans. When Jack returns home with no cow and no money his mother is furious and throws the beans out of the window. The next morning the two awake to find that a huge beanstalk has gronw from the beans. Jack climbs the beanstalk and finds a new land at the top complete with a castle and a very grumpy giant. Whilst the giant is asleep Jack steals a hen that lays golden eggs. On a second trip he steals bags of money. On the third trip he tries to steal a golden harp, but the harp calls for its master and the giant wakes up and follows Jack down the beanstalk. As soon as Jack reaches the ground, he sets to work to chop

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