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Jack and the Beanstalk


Barefoot Books

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No. of pages 40

Published: 2009

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Great for age 3-8 years

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The cupboards are bare, so Jacks mom sends him to market to sell Daisy the cow. On the way, Jack bumps into a funny little man who offers him six bewitched beans but the man has lost the instructions for them. Jack loves nothing better than magic and adventure, so he swaps Daisy for the beans and sets off home. And this is just the beginning of his story

 

There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Barefoot Books Ltd .

Richard Walker is an award-winning science writer and is the author of a wide range of Niamh Sharkey has twice been shortlisted for and once won the Bisto Book of the Year Award and she has slso won the Mother Goose Award. Her "Tales from Old Ireland" was an IBBY Honour Book 2002. She lives in a small fishing village north of Dublin, with her family.

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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