**Fans of *The Land of Stories* and *Ella Enchanted* will give a GIANT cheer for this funny fairytale retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk!** All his life, Jack has longed for an adventure, so when giants turn up in the neighbor's cabbage patch, he is thrilled! Soon Jack is chasing them to a lan
Jack: The True Story of Jack and the Beanstalk
β Scribed by Shurtliff, Liesl
- Book ID
- 108310156
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 6 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780385755795
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Fans of Adam Gidwitz and Chris Colfer will give a GIANT cheer for this funny fairytale retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk!
All work and no play makes Jack extremely bored. And when Jack gets bored, he makes mischief. It's not that he's bad; he just longs for adventure--and there's nothing adventurous about toiling day and night to grow yucky green stuff.
Adventure finally arrives one day in the form of giants, and soon Jack is chasing them to a land beyond the clouds, with his little sister, Annabella, in tow. The kingdom of giants is full of slugs the size of sheep, venomous pixies as tall as grown men, and a chatty cook with the biggest mouth Jack has ever seen. There's giant fun to be had, too: puddings to swim in, spoons to use as catapults, monster toads to carry off pesky little sisters. . . .
But Jack and Annabella are on a mission. The king of the giants has taken something that belongs to them, and they'll do anything--even...
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