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Joyce, William

A Bean, a Stalk, and a Boy Named Jack

56 pp. | Atheneum/Moonbot | October, 2014 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4424-7349-2 $17.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-4424-7350-8
(3) K-3 Illustrated by William Joyce & Kenny Callicutt. The story of "Jack and the Beanstalk" gets a quirky update in this hefty picture book, wherein Jack traces a drought in the kingdom to a young giant's prolonged bath time. Joyce's rhythmic cadence is perfectly complemented by epic multimedia art, which combines realistically rendered backgrounds and objects with doll-like characters to create an inviting fairy-tale world.
Reviewer: Hannah Rodgers Barnaby

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