Jack and the Beanstalk Retold in Verse for Boys & Girls to Read Themselves - Softcover

De Regniers, Beatrice Schenk

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0689714211 ISBN 13: 9780689714214

Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks, 1990

Synopsis

Retold in surprising verse and illustrated with humorous drawings, this popular folktale recounts the adventures of Jack who courageously matches wits with a fierce giant

About this title

From School Library Journal:

Grade 1-3 Jack, the not-too-bright, brash young man who sells his cow for beans, foils a giant and gains great wealth in the process, is back again. All of the elements of the English tale are here: Jack's sale of Milky White to a strange little man; the magical growth of an enormous beanstalk; one chorus of "Fee-fi-fo-fum," etc.; three trips up the stalk to strip the giant of his sack of gold, the hen who lays golden eggs and the harp of gold; and finally Jack's hasty trip down and the giant's unceremonious demise. DeRegniers explains that all of the items Jack steals from the giant once belonged to his father, a fact which Joseph Jacobs in English Folk and Fairy Tales (Putnam, 1904; o.p.) chose to omit. Here, though, the tale is retold in verse with a predictable pattern and rhyme which is sometimes broken by an extended line. It does, however, lend itself to being read aloud and could be used for dramatization with children (as a play or a choral reading). Cartoon-like watercolors in soft colors race through the pages to add movement and humor to the text. Maria B. Salvadore, District of Columbia Public Library
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review:

Jack And The Beanstalk
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0689714211
• ISBN 13: 9780689714214
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 46
• Illustrator: Wilsdorf Anne