OF COURSE you think I was the bad guy, terrifying poor little Jack. You don't know the other side of the story. Well, let me tell you...

When Jim mounts the beanstalk, he finds an old, toothless, bald, weak-eyed giant whom he takes sympathy on and attempts to rejuvenate.

As a dachshund, Clementine sees the world from an entirely different viewpoint, one that's much closer to the ground and allows her to scamper by undetected. Join this sassy wiener dog as she retells classic fairy tales from her low-riding perspective. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.

Jack and his mother are barely scraping by when a mysterious stranger gives them three magic beans. The resulting adventure takes Jack to a giant’s castle in the sky, where he encounters magical and sometimes terrifying things. Will Jack ever make it back to his mother? And will the magic beans change his fortunes, as the old man promised?

Jack doesn't listen to his mother and ends up running from a big, mean ogre! This fairy tale has magical beans, an old woman that helps Jack, and a happy ending.