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Nursery Tales: Jack & The Beanstalk


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Young children deserve to experience the classic nursery tales at their best. Norman Messenger has illustrated a little library that includes Jack and the Beanstalk by Rosemary Wells The Little Red Hen by Alan Garner and The Gingerbread Man by Barbara Baumgartner. The first books in the series have already received praise from press and parents alike.

 

There are 24 pages in this book. This book was published 1997 by Dorling Kindersley Ltd .

Norman Messenger's reputation as an illustrator became established with work for books, magazines and design groups. His books for children include Annabel's House (winner of the U. S. Redbook Award), Making Faces and Imagine. He was a founder member of the Association of Illustrators and lives in Redmarley D'Abitot, Gloucestershire. Rosemary Wells is the author of more than 40 books about Max and Ruby. She lives in Connecticut.

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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