Jack and the Beanstalk / retold for easy reading by Vera Southgate ; illustrated by Martin Salisbury.
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TextPublisher: [Place of publication not found] Ladybird Books LTD MCMLXXXII [?]Edition: revised editionDescription: 51 pages : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0721406882 [hardbound]Subject(s): Fairy tales -- Children's nonfiction | Folklore -- Children's nonfiction. -- England | Giants -- Folklore -- Children's nonfictionSummary: Once upon a time there was a widow who had only one son, named Jack. He was a lazy boy. He would not go out to work for his living, nor would he do much work for his mother at home. Yet Jack was not altogether a bad boy. He was kindhearted and pleasant and his mother was very fond of him. At last the day arrived when the widow had nothing left in the world, except one cow. Next morning Jack got up early and set off for market, with the cow. On the road he met a butcher and agreed to bargain his cow with a magic beans. His mother got very, very angry and threw the beans out of the window. The next morning Jack woke early feeling very hungry. Jack ran downstairs and discovered that it was not a tree that was growing in the garden, but a huge beanstalk. Jack climbed and he climbed and he climbed, yet whenever he looked up, the top of the beanstalk still stretched upwards, out of sight. At length, after man hours of climbing, Jack reached the top of the beanstalk and stepped off into a wild, bare country. Jack set off along the road and soon he met an old, old woman...
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Once upon a time there was a widow who had only one son, named Jack. He was a lazy boy. He would not go out to work for his living, nor would he do much work for his mother at home. Yet Jack was not altogether a bad boy. He was kindhearted and pleasant and his mother was very fond of him. At last the day arrived when the widow had nothing left in the world, except one cow. Next morning Jack got up early and set off for market, with the cow. On the road he met a butcher and agreed to bargain his cow with a magic beans. His mother got very, very angry and threw the beans out of the window. The next morning Jack woke early feeling very hungry. Jack ran downstairs and discovered that it was not a tree that was growing in the garden, but a huge beanstalk. Jack climbed and he climbed and he climbed, yet whenever he looked up, the top of the beanstalk still stretched upwards, out of sight. At length, after man hours of climbing, Jack reached the top of the beanstalk and stepped off into a wild, bare country. Jack set off along the road and soon he met an old, old woman...
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