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• Jack and the Beanstalk is a children's fairy tale that has been turned into films such as the 1994 Beanstalk and the 2001 The Real Story.

• Fast Facts

  1. Origin of the tale unknown
  2. Earliest version recorded in 1807
  3. Most popular version recorded 1890 by Joseph Jacobs
  4. Has been adapted to stage, film, mime, comic-book
  5. The giant's "Fee! Fie! Foe! Fum!" was included in William Shakespeare's King Lear
  6. Themes: Poverty, thievery, treachery, murder, justice, growth, maturity

• Sypnosis

  Jack and the Beanstalk is a story about a young man who sells his mother's cow for magic beans instead of money. His mother gets very mad at him and tosses the beans away. The next morning the young man notices a massive beanstalk that has grown behind his house. Jack climbs into the sky and finds himself in the realm of a giant.

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