Jasper's Beanstalk - Softcover

Butterworth, Nick; Inkpen, Mick

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340586346 ISBN 13: 9780340586341

Publisher: Hodder Children's Books, 1993

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On Monday Jasper finds a bean. In spite of all the attention he lavishes on it, the bean will not grow. The follow-on story to "Just Like Jasper".

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About the Author:

Mick Inkpen is now one of the top-selling picture book artists and writers in the world whose stories have sold millions worldwide. His most popular characters are Kipper and Wibbly Pig. He is a winner of the British Book Award for the best illustrated book, for Lullabyhullabaloo, and the Children's Book Award for Threadbear. Kipper won a BAFTA for best animated children's film in 1998. Nick Butterworth After leaving school he went to work as a typographic designer and fromed a partnership with Mick Inkpen. As well as writing and illustrating he enjoys a freelance career in design and illustrations.

From Publishers Weekly:

In their latest collaboration, Butterworth and Inkpen ( I Wonder at the Zoo ; Just Like Jasper ) bring back the amiable feline character, who found a bean on Monday. On Tuesday, Jasper planted his bean; on Wednesday he watered it; and on Thursday "he dug and raked and sprayed and hoed it." On each successive day--and spread--the busy fellow tends his would-be beanstalk. But when no growth appears in a week's time, Jasper digs up the bean and tosses it over his shoulder, lamenting, "That bean will never make a beanstalk." Youngsters will be as thrilled as this hero himself to discover that his pronouncement is wrong. As the cat sits reading the well-known tale of another successful beanstalk cultivator, a small bird informs Jasper that a leafy stalk is growing outside his window. With its basic concept, large-scale pictures, spare text and oversize typeface, this satisfying though slender story is a good choice for preschoolers as well as for children just beginning to read on their own. Ages 3-6.
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