Monday, January 29, 2018

Jack and the Baked Beanstalk by Colin Stimpson

Jack and his mother serve delicious burgers from their truck.  Whenever the overpass is built, however, they lose their business.  With their last pennies, Jack trudges to the store for milk and coffee beans.  Instead he buys a can of baked beans from a stranger who claims they are magical.  Jack's mom, of course, throws the can out the window, sends him to bed without dinner and over night a huge beanstalk grows which has cans of baked beans dangling from it.  Jack climbs the stalk and meets a lonely giant.  A different, pleasant ending!
-Borrowed from the library.
I read this aloud to my boys for fun.  They liked it so much that they both reread it in their free time!
The illustrations were a bit dark for my taste.

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