I didn’t engage with the characters all that well, but they were okay. Jack grows a giant beanstalk and ascends to the world of the giants to get his father back. Then one day the village, including Jack’s father, is literally carried off by a giant.
Jack’s father tells him fantastical stories about giants but most of the village (including Jack’s mother) doesn’t believe in giants. You pretty much know this story if you know the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. It’s a cute story and I liked how other nursery rhymes were woven into the story as well (The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, The Cobbler and the Elves, and Tom Thumb to name a couple). This was a well done retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk. I got a copy of this book to review through the Amazon Vine program.
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