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Jack and the Beanstalk
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| Author(s): | Hallam Tennyson |
| Illustrator(s): | Randolph Caldecott |
| Publisher(s): | Macmillan Company |
| Year Published: | 1886 |
| Type: | Hardcover |
| Genre: | Fairy Tales - Classic Folk Tales Picture Book Poetry - Ballads |
| Age Range: | Ages 5-7: Early Reader Books |
| Pages: | 70 |
| This is an | All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB) |
Description
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.
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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 (1900)
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.
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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This edition follows the standard layout of one picture per month, days of the week, Sundays and holy days noted for each date, with season illustrations. This is the gilt cover edition. Read online at the University of Florida.
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