Jack and the Beanstalk
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BfK No. 82 - September 1993
Cover Story
The illustration on our cover this month is by Ted Dewan from Inside Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Creatures. This book was written by Steve Parker and published by Dorling Kindersley, to whom we are grateful for their help in using this illustration.
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Jack and the Beanstalk
Illustrated by Julek Heller
(Picture Lions)
978-0006642947, RRP £3.99, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
When Alan Garner takes on this old tale we see it afresh through his darker, powerfully poetic language. This is no compromise-the story is told so we can almost smell the smoke, see the flames at the fireside and hear the gravelly storyteller's gruff voice from ages past. Julek Heller's grimly evocative illustrations only fuel the illusion further. Not a light, comfortably sanitised retelling but the real thing.
