Professor Jack was impatient because his beans wouldn't grow big enough for him. He invented a magic formula in his laboratory, and the next day he was amazed to see a huge beanstalk sprouting up. It grew so big it smashed through his roof and went right up to the sky. The army and the air-force tried to destroy it, but it went up and up into space, and terrible monsters came to live in it. No one knew what to do, and no one knew how to stop the monsters from coming down the Meanstalk and destroying the planet Earth.

 

There are 26 pages in this book. This book was published 1997 by Oxford University Press .

Brian Lawrence Wildsmith was a British painter and children's book illustrator. He won the 1962 Kate Greenaway Medal for British children's book illustration, for the wordless alphabet book ABC. In all his books, the illustrations are always as important as the text. Wildsmith is considered as one of the greatest children's illustrators. The British Library Association recognised his first book, the wordless alphabet book ABC (1962), with the Kate Greenaway Medal for the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. Four of his works were subsequently commended runners-up for the Medal, all published by Oxford University Press: Oxford Book of Poetry for Children, edited by Edward Blishen, 1963; The Lion and the Rat: A Fable, by Jean de La Fontaine (1668), adapted from Aesop, also 1963; Birds, 1967; and The Owl and the Woodpecker, 1971. The biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award conferred by the International Board on Books for Young People is the highest recognition available to a writer or illustrator of children's books. Wildsmith was one of two runners-up for the inaugural illustration award in 1966 and one of three runners-up in 1968. Find out more here https://www. brianwildsmith. com/.