![]() ![]() Knopf Books for Young Readers for review purposes. Please note: This review is based on the advance reader’s copy provided by Alfred A. All from 1.39 New Books from 5.55 Used Books from 1. Girls will love the adventure and the magic. Relates the tale of Jack who, after trading his mother's milk cow for magic beans, climbs a beanstalk to seek his missing father in the land of giants. Perfect for middle grade readers or for anyone who enjoys fractured fairy tales.īoys will love the adventure. It’s fun, and readers who loved “RUMP” (and even readers who didn’t) will enjoy this ride into giant-land. The details are fabulous, the characters winning, and the story engrossing. In fact, she saves Jack’s bacon more than once. She also twists the much-told Jack story, and readers will love to find out about who says “Fee fie fo fum.” Oh, and Jack’s younger sister, Annabella? She is pretty capable, too. The woman who lived in a shoe with her many children? Check. ![]() Shurtliff manages to cleverly include several other fairy tales and nursery rhymes. And when they take Jack’s father, he decides it’s time for him to fulfill his legacy and rescue his father. ![]() They take whole houses with the people inside them. But nothing prepares him for when the giants descend through the sky to pick their village clean. It’s about Jack, of course, who has been hearing for his whole life stories about how his “seven times great grandfather” killed the giant. “JACK: The True Story of Jack and the Beanstalk” by Liesl Shurtliff is every bit as brilliant and well written as her first book in the series, “RUMP: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin.” ![]()
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