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Once Upon A World: The Giant Oak Tree and Also Jack and The Beanstalk


Once Upon a World

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No. of pages 48

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The Giant Oak Tree is an Eastern European fairy tale, where an old couple find their fortune at the top of a magic oak tree, just as the hero of Jack and the Beanstalk finds riches at the top a giant bean plant. The Lonely Princess is an Indian fairy tale about a girl kept prisoner in a magic palace floating in the air, just as Rapunzel is imprisoned in a tower

 

This book is part of a book series called Once Upon a World .

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2005 by Hachette Children's Group .

Alan Marks is widely published and has illustrated many books. He is also a 'Smarties Prize' prize winner. Saviour Pirotta has written a wide range of fiction and non-fiction texts and won awards both here and in the US.

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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Once Upon a World

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