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First Fairy Tales: Jack and The Beanstalk


First Fairy Tales

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No. of pages 32

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A wonderful retelling of a classic fairy tale by much-loved author, Margaret Mayo.

 

This book features in the following series: First Fairy Tales, Orchard Colour Crunchies .

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Hachette Children's Group .

Margaret Mayo lives in Brighton with her husband. As a mother, grandmother and former teacher, she has used her wide range of experience to retell some of the most well-loved tales from different parts of the world. Margaret has written several books for Orchard. Philip Norman lives in France with his wife and children. The First Fairy Tales series is the first series he has illustrated for Orchard. Margaret Mayo is an acclaimed storyteller and author of many bestselling children's titles. A former teacher, she uses her wide-ranging experience with children in her writing. She lives in Brighton.

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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Orchard Colour Crunchies
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