Jack and the Beanstalk
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| Author(s): | Anonymous |
| Illustrator(s): | Walter Crane |
| Publisher(s): | John Lane Co. |
| Year Published: | 1900 |
| Type: | Softcover |
| Genre: | Fairy Tales - Classic Picture Book |
| Age Range: | Ages 0-5: Picture Books |
| Pages: | 8 |
| This is an | All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB) |
| OCLC: | 4109690 |
Description
Trading his mother’s cow for a handful of magic beans works out in the end. The cover image above is from the later reissue.
Read for free online at Toronto Public Library. NOTE: that link downloads a very large file.
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The Bluebeard Picture Book (1875)
An omnibus containing Baby’s Own Alphabet, Bluebeard, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Little Red Riding Hood. Read online at NLJ.
Jack and the Beanstalk (1875)
Trading his mother’s cow for a handful of magic beans works out in the end. Read for free online at the Toronto Public Library. NOTE: this link downloads a very large file.
Jack and the Beanstalk (1886)
The familiar story of Jack and the Beanstalk in English hexameters by the son of the Poet Laureate. Read for free online at Project Gutenberg.
Or Hathitrust.
Red Riding Hood’s Picture Book (1898)
An omnibus containing The Forty Thieves, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Little Red Riding Hood. Read for free online at Toronto Public Library. NOTE: that link downloads a very large file.
Jack and the Beanstalk (1922)
Jack sells his mother’s cow for a handful of magic beans, and the rest is history.
Jack and the Beanstalk: An English Folk Tale (1953)
How Jack traded his cow for some magic beans that took him to the cloud land of the giants.
Jack and the Beanstalk (1986)
Jack trades his mother’s cow for a handful of beans -- but these are magic beans that grow to the giants’ land in the sky.
Read online at archive.org.
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