Jack and the Beanstalk (Keepsake Stories)

Good quality paper. Pictures follow along the story well. Our 3 yr old granddaughter loves hearing the story.

Awesome book to read for grandkids.

This is great, 2 year old loved it, will be in our library for a long time as the pages are lengthy, but easy to make more concise for a little guy.

It is very difficult to find fairy tales appropriate for preschoolers -- either they are too close to the original, "dark" versions or they are too wordy/lengthy to keep a young child's attention. This book is great, because it is direct, simple, yet well-written. The story is not all roses and rainbows, but it's not as brutal as the original Grimm or Andersen tales. The pictures are beautiful. My four-year-old loves this story, more than any of the others in the series, and now he knows what we mean when we yell "Fee fi fo fum!" when we come looking for him during hide-and-seek!

I thought this was a great version of the story with great graphics. I used to tell this story from memory to my 2 yr old daughter and it's all she wanted to hear about, so I thought I'd look for a book. This story was pretty much the same one, had more details than what I remembered, but good details. For those interested (since it's not real clear), here is a summary of how this specific book tells the story: -Jack and his mom (who is out of work) are poor and decide to sell their cow -Jack goes to sell it but is met by a man on the way who trades the cow for magic beans -Jack's mom gets angry and throws the beans out the window, resulting in a beanstalk -Jack climbs the beanstalk to find a castle -The female giant agrees to let Jack work for some money, but warns him that her husband will want to eat him if he gets caught -Jack steals some gold coins from the male giant while he is sleeping (which the giant stole from Jack's village in the first place) -Jack goes back up a second time and steals the goose that lays the golden eggs -Jack goes up a third time to steal the singing harp, against his mother's request, which ends up waking up the giant, who chases jack down the beanstalk -Jack and his mom chop down the beanstalk, destroying the giant

I ordered this book to read to kindergarten classes during Read Across America week. The story was very good, and the illustrations were excellent. If there has to be a negative, it would be that I wish the book was a little larger, with the big groups I read to, some of the children had trouble seeing the pictures.

The story from our childhood to share with the newest generation of young readers. My students loved it.

my granddaughter who is 10 likes to listen to this book on her phone. It also has other stories on it and helps her get to sleep. Very nice. I like it. Very soothing to listen to.

A good version. Bought for my class for English lessons. They found the story easy to follow. Nice illustrations. 👍

Bonito libro, ilustraciones y buena presentación en general.

Etant anglophone, habitant en France, je cherche des livres en anglais pour lire avec mon fils (4 ans). Ce livre est juste le bon longueur pour une histoire avant de se coucher. Il est simple et bien écrit et les images sont belles. Je recommande!

Good read and a classic story

My son really likes it so that's good enough for me! The story is a bit different to what i am familiar with but it's fine.