Jack and The Beanstalk

TITLE:  Jack and The Beanstalk

AUTHOR(retold by): Ann K. Beneduce    ILLUSTRATOR: Gennady Spirin

PUBLISHER: Philomel; First Edition               PUBLICATION DATE: 1999

GENRE: Traditional Tale Euro Book            READING LEVEL: Ages 5-7

BRIEF OVERVIEW: A tall tale where Jack grows a beanstalk which reaches to the sky where a giant lives.  Jack eventually escapes the giant’s home and cuts the beanstalk down and the giant falls down from the sky after chasing him.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: After readying the story, the students will tell me what they learned about beanstalks, the children can write a story sequence about the book and once they are finished they can create their own beanstalk and draw themselves beside their beanstalk they just made.

 REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Tayler M. Graves; VSU