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Jack and the Beanstalk

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Author(s):Hallam Tennyson
Illustrator(s):Randolph Caldecott
Publisher(s): Macmillan Company
Year Published: 1886
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Fairy Tales - Classic
Folk Tales
Picture Book
Poetry – Ballads
Age Range: Ages 5-7: Early Reader Books
Pages: 70
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)

Description

The familiar story of Jack and the Beanstalk in English hexameters by the son of the Poet Laureate. Read for free online at Project Gutenberg.

Or Hathitrust.

Other Editions

Jack and the Beanstalk (1875)

Trading his mother’s cow for a handful of magic beans works out in the end. Read for free online at the Toronto Public Library. NOTE: this link downloads a very large file.

Publisher: George Routledge & Sons
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Jack and the Beanstalk (1900)

Trading his mother’s cow for a handful of magic beans works out in the end. The cover image above is from the later reissue.

Read for free online at Toronto Public Library. NOTE: that link downloads a very large file.

Publisher: John Lane Co.
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Jack and the Beanstalk (1922)

Jack sells his mother’s cow for a handful of magic beans, and the rest is history.

Publisher: Platt and Munk
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Jack and the Beanstalk: An English Folk Tale (1953)

How Jack traded his cow for some magic beans that took him to the cloud land of the giants.

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Jack and the Beanstalk (1986)

Jack trades his mother’s cow for a handful of beans -- but these are magic beans that grow to the giants’ land in the sky.

Read online at archive.org.

Publisher: William Morrow & Co.
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