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=Jack And the Beanstalk =

Read Original version of Jack and the Beanstalk This is the original version of Jack and the Beanstalk by Joseph Jacobs that also includes 8 other different versions

[|Jack and the Beanstalk by Joseph Jacobs] this is also the original version of Jack and the Beanstalk by Joseph Jacobs, but it includes pictures so it is child-friendly.

[|Jack and the Beanstalk] this is a Walt Disney short of Jack and the Beanstalk In this version Jack climbed up the beanstalk and when he reaches the top there was a beautiful country before him, finely wooded, with beautiful meadows covered with sheep. A crystal stream ran through the pastures; not far from the place where he had got off the beanstalk stood a fine, strong castle. Jack saw a lady come out from the woods and asked who lived in the castle and she told him the story.The castle long ago had belonged to a knight who had a beloved wife and several children. One day a giant went to the castle late at night, bribed a servant to let him in, and killed the knight and his children. The wife and her baby however was not killed by the giant, the lady finally told Jack that the wife was his mother and that the castle was once his father and jack must get it back.

History Here is a brief history of Jack and the Beanstalk as described by SurLaLune Fairy Tales [|History of Jack and the Beanstalk] Many variations of the tale's themes exist in different countries. The English version, Jack and the Beanstalk, is the most popular and best known variation of the tale. The events causing the beanstalk to grow, as well as the motivation for stealing from and killing the giant, vary across versions, some with more "justifiable" reasoning, such as revenge. Still, Jack is a trickster and thus amoral and/or immoral in most versions. The tale has appeared primarily in north-central Europe. It has been popular in Finland and Norway. It has appeared as far away as Spain and Romania, but never in Russia or further east. It has also appeared in French tellings in Canada and on to the American Indian tribes stretching from Nova Scotia to British Columbia

Similar Tales Across Cultures [|Similar Tales Across Cultures] from the SurLaLune Fairy Tales

Modern Interpretations

**The Thief and the Beanstalk by P.W. Catanese** //Everyone knows the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. Everyone also knows that Jack's adventure made him a very rich man. But what they don't know is what happened a long time after Jack...//

That’s where Nick comes in. Orphaned and desperate, Nick joins a nasty band of thieves in hopes of a warm meal and a little protection. In exchange Nick must help them break into the lavish white castle rumored to belong to an old man named Jack. Legend says it’s full of riches from Jack’s quest up a magical beanstalk decades ago. When Nick’s dangerous mission leads him straight to Jack, he sees a chance to climb the famed beanstalk for himself. But what Nick doesn’t know is that things are different from when Jack made his climb. There are new foes at the top now. Ones with cruel weapons and foul plans – plans that could destroy the world as Nick knows it. Will Nick come down the beanstalk a hero? Will he come down at all?

**The World Above by Cameron Dokey** **Gen and her twin brother, Jack, were raised with their mother's tales of life in the World Above. Gen is skeptical, but adventureous Jack believes the stories--and trades the family cow for magical beans. Their mother rejoices, knowing they can finally return to their royal home. **

[|Modern Interpretations] this is also from the SurLaLune Fairy Tales which describes the themes of Jack and the Beanstalk and how it appeared in literature in other forms of art. There are different versions of literature, music, poetry, film, and theatre that are all interpretations of Jack and the Beanstalk.

Fractured Fairy Tales Jack trys out for this baseball team called the Boston Beavers and the team is not very good, they've never won a game. They play this team called the Poughkeepsie pirates, there best player goes up to the plate and hits the ball high, far out into the outfield. Jack takes the beans from his pocket and throws them into the ground and out shoots this huge beanstalk. He climbs up the beanstalk and catches the ball, making the winning catch of the game. The team starts winning all their games now with Jack and his beanstalks. There is a big game and they are playing the Giants. All the players are hitting balls high and far into the outfield but Jack is catching them with his beanstalk.The giants best player was up to bat with bases loaded. Jack thought he was going to hit it far and high like all the other players so once again he planted the beanstalks and climbed up to make the catch. Instead the player tapped the ball right to Jacks position, but he wasn't there because he was already up in the beanstalk. So then, since the bases were loaded the team scored and they won. The beanstalk was so high up in the sky Jack poked through the clouds and saw a big castle, and there was the giant ready to eat him.

This is another Fractured Fairy Tale version of Jack and the Beanstalk

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[|Jack and the Beanstalk Modern Parody]

Videos

[|A Different Perspective] this is a different perspective of Jack and the Beanstalk told from the Giants point of view. This video was a group of kids from Sunset Park Elementary School.

This is the Japanese animated version of Jack and the Beanstalk from 1974. It used to play on HBO and the Disney Channel back in the 80's. media type="youtube" key="xDkPlnTBOi4?fs=1" height="385" width="480"

This is the 2010 Avalon Family Entertainment movie of Jack and the Beanstalk

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Books

These are different versions of Jack and the Beanstalk by Diane Stanley and Sam Swope


 * Historical/Cultural Perspectives**
 * [|Jack and the Beanstalk retold] Jack and the Beanstalk is a story with a long history. This version, retold by Ann Keay Beneduce, illustrated by Gennady Spirin, seeks the best of the Jack tradition. **One problem many have had with Jack over the years is his apparently random violence and theft. However, the tale has been moralized in the centuries since its first telling. Among the moralized versions appeared the addition of a fairy who tells Jack that he must go on this adventure in order to recover the treasures stolen from his family by a giant and to avenge his father’s death at the hands of the same giant.

Controversies The controversies of Jack and the Beanstalk were whether there were any morals in the story or if children would understand that stealing is bad thing because in the end Jack never got caught or in trouble for stealing.

The story portrays a "hero" hiding in a man's house, playing on his wife's sympathies in order to rob and finally murder the owner of the house. In Tabart's moralized version, a fairy woman explains to Jack that the giant had robbed and killed his father, thus transforimg the acts into jusified retribution.

Joseph Jacobs dropped the justification on the grounds that it had not been in the version he had heard as a child, and becuase children knew that robbery and murder were wrong without being told so by a fairy tale.

Many modern interpretations have followed Tabart and painted the giant as a villain, terrorizing smaller folk and often stealing items of value so Jack doesn't look like the bad guy.

Jack and the Beanstalk in Movies & TV

Jack made his first known screen appearance during the very early days of motion pictures. In 1902 pioneer movie man Edwin S. Porter directed a ten minute version of the story using trick photography techniques first developed by Georges Melies in France. Since then many film versions have followed.

[|Jack and the Beanstalk over the years]

These are just examples of some of the different versions of Jack and the Beanstalk:

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #373737; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">//<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Jack and the Beanstalk (1922). //In 1922 a young Walt Disney created this animated story of Jack. Although crude by today’s standards, it is still an interesting curio because it helped launch Disney’s long career.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #373737; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">//<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Giantland (1933). //Another black and white, animated version from Disney. Like the 1922 version, it is a straightforward telling of the story, this time with Mickey Mouse playing the role of Jack. The film also introduced Mickey’s nephews to the world.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #373737; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">//<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk (1942). //This cartoon is an example of how movies were used in World War II as propaganda as well as entertainment. In the story Bugs Bunny puts the legendary giant in his place after being constantly told that giants are the superior race.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #373737; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">//<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Mickey and the Beanstalk (1947). //This time Mickey Mouse is joined by Donald Duck and Goofy at the top of the beanstalk. Originally intended to be a full length feature, the movie was shortened to 40 minutes, combined with another short feature, //<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Bongo //, and released as //<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Fun and Fancy Free //. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #373737; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">[|Mickey and the Beanstalk] this is a short clip of Disney's animation of Jack and the Beanstalk

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">Poem by David Jacobs and Ryan Shorr

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">Jack and his mother always searching for money, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">Many nights there only food is honey. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">Trading their cow, no milk nor cheese, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">He only got in return a sack of four beans. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">His mother enraged ready to boil, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">Threw the beans out into the soil. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">With sun and water the beans grew tall <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">Jack woke up in shock of it all. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">He went outside to see this great sight, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">The stalk was growing rapidly at a great height. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">Up Up and away he climbed…. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">Leaving his mother and friends behind. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">Fatigued and sweaty he finally reached the top, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">When he saw a huge giant that resembled a Cyclops <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">He found a gold egg and took it running out the door, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">He was going to bring it home to sell and no longer be poor. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">After Jack took a harp the giant chased him looking for blood, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">They went stride for stride thud for thud. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">Jack swooped down the stalk and chopped it down, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">The giant could not get to him and let out a big frown. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">Jack and his mother hugged feeling very dapper <span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">After that adventure they lived happily ever after.

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