English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs

English Fairytales by Joseph Jacobs: How Jack went to Seek his Fortune, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, and Teeny Tiny.


Publisher: Schocken Books


Copyright: 1967


Number of Pages: 237 (Whole Book)


Age: 12+ years


Genre: Fairytale





Summary of: Jack and the Beanstalk

This is the same typical story of Jack and the Beanstalk. Jack goes and sells his mothers cow because they were getting poor. He goes and sells it for a few magic beans. Jacks mother was furious so she took the beans and threw them out the window. The next morning the beans grew to the sky. Jack climbed up the beanstalk and found two giants living there. The woman giant was nice and helped Jack a few times but the man giant wanted to eat Jack. Jack however, kept going up the beanstalk and every time he went up he would take some thing of great value such as gold. The third time Jack went up the man giant caught Jack and started chasing him. Jack got to the bottom and axed the beanstalk and it fell and the giant never caught Jack. Jack and his mother lived well off because of all the gold that Jack brought into their lives.



Who might benefit from this book?

I think anyone could. Its a typical story of Jack and the Beanstalk so it would be fine for story time or even a bed time story.



What problems might this book cause?

The only thing I could think of was stealing. Children might think that it was OK to steal other peoples things. In the story Jack stole the giants things and that wasn't fair to him even though the giant wanted to eat Jack.



My reaction:

This story was fine. I already new the story of Jack and the Beanstalk so it was predicatable as to what was going to happen.