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Jack and the Beanstalk and Other Classic Fairy Tales - PlainTales Classics
Author: Andrew Lang, Tavia Gilbert, Stephen McLaughlin

Imagine a time of fairies and giants, when good always triumphed over evil, and bravery and cunning saved the day. That's the world inhabited by this collection of favorite fairy tales, retold in charming prose by Scottish historian Andrew Lang. Children will love hearing how Jack made his fortune; how a quick-thinking queen saved her baby from ... more »Rumpelstiltskin; how a clever cat turned his master into a marquis; and how even a spiteful fairy couldn't stop true love from waking a sleeping princess.

A version of Sleeping Beauty was first published in Italy in 1634, but an even earlier sleeping princess named Brynhildr was written about in Iceland around 1400.

About PlainTales Classics

There seem to be two kinds of stories: the ones you should read and the ones you want to read. We think the twenty-two stories included in the PlainTales Classics line are both. You and your family will love tales like Hansel and Gretel, The Velveteen Rabbit and Rip Van Winkle because they have great characters you can cheer for (or despise unabashedly) and because they leave you hungry to know what comes next.

They're also good for you. A first introduction to some of the world's great writers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne and Oscar Wilde, PlainTales Classics are cultural touchstones that have informed subsequent works of literature, right down to Harry Potter, for the past 100 years.

Of course, learning is easy when you're having fun.

About PlainTales

There are plenty of reasons to enjoy classic stories. Maybe there's nothing good on TV (there probably isn't). Maybe it will make you smarter (it probably will). Or perhaps you have happy memories of reading great stories or having them read to you. You remember times when a story was so captivating that everything else seemed to melt away, when just the sound of the words transported you to another world. Suddenly homework and feeding the dog went out the window, and nothing mattered more than finding out what happened next.

A sense of magical alchemy occurs when words and imagination mix, and it's the goal of PlainTales to make that easier. The other benefits of hearing great stories such as a bigger vocabulary, the ability to think creatively, a jumpstart on school success matter. But in the end it's the wonderful, transporting pleasure of a good story that makes them worth visiting again and again. And that can change your life for the better, forever.

We hope you'll try listening to a PlainTales story. Prepare to be transported.

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ISBN-13: 9780981903293
ISBN-10: 0981903290
Publication Date: 9/1/2009
Edition: Unabridged edition
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
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5 stars, based on 1 rating

Publisher: PlainTales Inc.
Book Type: Audio CD
Members Wishing: 0
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