Jack's mum is furious when he returns from the market with a can of baked beans rather than money, in return for their beloved cow. But their luck is about to change, as the beans are magic! Find out what mayhem ensues is a comic retelling of a traditional tale.

* Topaz/ Band 13 books offer longer and more demanding reads for children to investigate and evaluate.

* Text type - A modern play based on a fairytale.

* Curriculum links - Citizenship: Choices; Respect for property.

* This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

This book features in the following series: Collins Big Cat, Topaz Series .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading scheme has multiple levels. This reading book uses the phonics method. This approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers .

David Wood is Wood is a leading writer and director of plays and musicals for children. His most famous story, The Gingerbread Man, has been performed all over the world. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years. Gabriel Gate, Joan Van Loon and Chantal Stewart are a TV chef, writer and illustrator who share a passion for chocolate!