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Jack and the Beanstalk
Title: Jack and the
Beanstalk
Author: Albert
Lorenze
Illustrator:
Albert Lorenze
Publishing
Company: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Copyright:
2002
# of
Pages: 28
Genre/Category:
Traditional Literature
I chose this book because the cover
looked interesting. It retells the classic story about a boy named Jack who
sells the family cow for some magic beans. The beans grow into a tall bean stalk
that takes Jack to the house of two giants. Jack steals from the giants, and
they chase him down the bean stalk. He cuts the bean stalk down before they can
make it to the bottom, and they fall into the ocean.
The illustrations in this book are
done with pen and ink, watercolor, and colored pencils. There is hardly any
blank space on the page, and I personally think the pages are too busy. It
seems to take away from the story. I do like the way the illustrator uses perspective though. The giants
are made to look extremely huge, and some of the pages make it seem like the
reader is looking up at the large scale pictures. The illustrations change from horizontal to
vertical throughout the book. The illustrator also used crosshatching and
borders in every illustration. Some pages have a note to try to find Jack, and
the reader is challenged to look through the busy pictures to find him.
This book would be appropriate for
children ages 7-9. The illustrations are a little scary, and the story is
pretty long. This book has motifs in it, so teachers could use this book to
teach about motifs. One example is the use of skulls. Teachers could also
choose one page and do a quick write. The teacher could ask the students to
look at the page and write about everything they see on that page. The pages
are so full, that each child could have something different. Teachers could
also ask children what they would do if they were put into Jack’s place to
teach children how to empathize with characters. This would also be a good book
to use to introduce traditional literature to children.
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