Retold and illustrated by Paul Galdone
Houghton Mifflin Company
Copyright 1974
Traditional Literature
15 pages
This story is about Jack. His mother gives him money to go and buy a goose. however, Jack buys what is supposed to be a magic bean. His mother is very displeased. Jack goes and plants the seed. The next morning, the bean has turned into a bean stalk so high that Jack cannot even see the top of it! He climbs the stalk all the way to the top to find a house. He knocks and a girl answers. She tells him that he must go because a giant lives there and he will surely eat him. What will happen to Jack? Read Paul Galdone's Jack and the Beanstalk to find out!
The illustrations look to be done in ink sketches. The lines are not continuous but broken up to show texture. The illustrations look to be colored with water colored paints. There is a mixture of warm and cool colors throughout the book.
This story could be used in a science lesson. The students could each receive a different kind of magic bean. They could grow it and research to try and figure out what their magic bean as grown to be. This book could also be used in a math lesson. They could do an activity where they have to measure the beanstalk. You could also use beans as a manipulative during a math lesson that has to do with the story.
No comments:
Post a Comment