Designed for children learning to read, this book retells Jack and the Beanstalk in lively, natural language to help children develop the confidence to read alone. Level Three is suitable for children who are developing reading stamina and who are ready to progress to longer stories.
'Ladybird Favorite Tales' are beautifully illustrated retellings that capture all the magic of the original stories. Children will enjoy reading them again and again. Let your child join Jack in his adventure at the top of the beanstalk.
Once upon a time there was a poor woman who had a son named Jack. They lived in a small tumbledown house, and all they had was one cow. One day the cow stopped giving milk, so the woman told her son to take it to market.
There was once a boy named Jack who lived with his widowed mother and his pet squirrel, Phil, in a cottage in the woods. The little family was quite poor, and the day came when they had to sell their cow to buy food.
Our story is about a boy called Jack. He lived with his mothers in a tiny, old cottage; Jack's father had died so,e years before. The cottage was badly in need of repair: when it rained the roof let in water, the small garden was overgrown with weeds and most of the fences had fallen down.
Jack is not fond of the bossy narrator of his fairy tale! When Jack is told to trade his beloved cow Bessie for some magic beans, throw the beans out the window, climb the ENORMOUS beanstalk that sprouts overnight, and steal from a GIANT, he decides this fairy tale is getting out of control. In fact, he doesn’t want to follow the story line at all. Who says Jack needs to enter a life of darin…
This is a retelling of two favourite fairy tales "Jack and The Beanstalk" and "The Princess and the Pea".
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