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Once upon a time, in a far away land lived a young boy 

named Jack and his widowed mother. They were very 

poor and Jack's mother could barely earn enough 

money to provide food for the both of them, so they 

started to sell the furniture in their cottage. 

    Everyday, Jack would go to town carrying the 

furniture that he would sell for the day but later he 

found that carrying the furniture with only his hands 

was very difficult. He needed something to make work 

easier, and what he found to do that job was a wheel 

barrow. He would pile up the furniture in the wheel 

barrow and take it to town instead of carrying them with 

his hands. The work became much easier to do with 

the help of the wheel barrow.

Weeks passed and almost all of the furniture in the small cottage 

had been sold. The only things left that were valuable enough to 

sell were Jamie the cow and the cottage itself. Jamie, a dependable 

cow, had provided milk for the small family every morning, which 

they occasionally took to town to sell. Other than Jamie, the only 

thing that provided Jack and his mother with something to drink 

was a well that they had on their property. There was a bar above 

the well that had a rope connected to a bucket which was 

wrapped around the bar. Almost every morning Jack used this to 

get the water without having to reach all the way down into the well.

    One day, Jack's mother noticed that Jamie couldn't produce 

anymore milk and that is when she decided that it would be the 

best to sell the cow. “Jack, I want you to go to town and sell Jamie. 

I trust that you will be wise enough to make a good bargain,” Jack's 

mother told him. 

After talking to his mother, Jack headed off to town with Jamie. 

Although he was sad about having to say good-bye to Jamie, he 

later decided it was for the best; Jamie was getting old and him 

and his mother needed the money. When he was on the outskirts 

of the town, he was stopped by a mysterious looking man.

    “Good morning. How are you this fine day?” the man said as he 

stuck out his hand to shake Jack's hand. Jack took the man's 

hand and replied, “Good morning to you too sir. I'm doing well. 

I'm on my way to town to sell this cow here. Her name is Jamie.”

    After much talking with the man, Jack had reasoned out that he 

was not a suspicious person. The whole time, the man had his 

eyes on the cow an not Jack, and of course Jack noticed this.

“Would you like to buy this cow sir?” Jack asked.

“I am willing to buy the cow, but I do not have 

any money with me. So instead of buying the 

cow from you, I would like to trade the cow for 

five magical beans. They will grow until they 

reach the sky and bring you untold riches,” the 

man stated. Jack was about to about to turn 

down the offer thinking that the man was 

lying, but stopped himself when he saw the 

man hold five glowing beans. They seemed 

magical enough for him to take the beans 

happily and go home. 

When he got home he showed his mother the glowing beans. She was 

outraged when she saw them. 

“You traded Jamie for Beans? She was the last thing that could bring in enough 

money to buy food for us! How could you be so foolish?” Jack's mother's anger 

was evident in her voice. When Jack tried to explain what kind of beans they 

were, his mother snatched them out of his hands and threw them out the 

window. His mother stormed out of the room and stomped off to her own 

bedroom.

    Being the smart boy he was, Jack slowly tip-toed outside to where his mother 

threw the beans. There, he took a trowel and dug small holes so he could 

plant the beans. When Jack was finished planting the beans, he went straight 

to his room and slept. 

    Jack woke up to a surprise. Outside of his bedroom window was a giant 

beanstalk! Without a second thought, he jumped out of bed and sprinted 

towards the front door. 

"I wonder what is at the top of the beanstalk," Jack mumbled to himself. He 

thought of an idea as he pondered on the thought of what wonders could be 

above in the clouds. He ran inside and grabbed a ladder. He propped the 

ladder against the side of the beanstalk where the lowest leaf was and started 

to climb up. Once he reached the first leaf, Jack climbed rapidly and skillfully 

up the beanstalk. 

Jack did not no how long he had been climbing, but when he 

looked down his cottage looked like a small brown speck, and 

when he looked above him there was a whole new country. Jack 

finally reached the end of the beanstalk, and when he looked 

around there was a wide road leading to an extremely large 

house.

    As Jack walks towards the house, he sees a beautiful looking 

woman. 

“Good morning, ma'am,” Jack politely said. 

“Good morning dear Jack,” the woman replied. The woman's 

reply surprised Jack more than he had ever been; he could not 

understand how she had known his name, which frightened him. 

But his name was not the only thing that she knew about Jack, 

she knew about his whole life up until that point. 

She explained to him that his father had been killed by the giant 

who lived in the house he was walking towards, and all the 

treasures that the giant kept in his house belonged to Jack and 

his mother. 

The woman also explained the reason why she knew so much 

about him.“All humans have fairies who watch over them. 

I'm your fairy and as your fairy I advise you to go to the 

giant's house and go get what is rightfully yours,” said the 

fairy. Jack did as he was told; he marched towards the house 

and in front of the house he saw the giants wife outside. 

“Excuse me ma'am. May have something to eat? I haven't 

eaten anything since yesterday morning,” Jack pleaded. The 

giant's wife had a kind heart that couldn't turn anyone down 

so she took Jack into the kitchen. There, she took a piece of 

bread and cut it into small pieces using a knife; she also 

poured some milk for Jack. She placed the small meal in 

front of Jack. Jack was very close to finishing the bread and 

milk when he heard the giant walking towards the kitchen. 

When The giant's wife heard this, she grabbed Jack and put 

him in an open tea kettle. When he walked into the kitchen 

the giant roared: 

“Fe, fi, fo, fum, 

I smell the blood of an Englishman; 

be he alive or be he dead; 

I'll grind his bones to make my bread.”

    The giant's wife told him that it was the ox cooking and 

after arguing for a while, the giant sat down to eat. The 

giant's wife brought him a plateful of ox and soup. After the 

giant finished eating, he ordered his wife to bring him his 

money-bags. His wife brought in two large burlap bags and 

placed them in front of her husband; as soon as the bags 

were in front of him, the giant grabbed a handful of gold 

coins and started counting. 

After a few minutes, the giant started to nod off to sleep 

and when Jack saw this he made his way out of the tea 

kettle.

The giant's wife left the kitchen and that's when Jack tip-

toed his way to the giant's money-bags. He dragged 

both of the bags out of the house and towards the 

beanstalk. When Jack reached the beanstalk, he saw 

that a wide vine had wrapped around the beanstalk 

like a screw. This made it much easier for Jack to go 

down the beanstalk than it was before when he had to 

climb using the grown leaves.

As Jack made his way down the bags of money slowly 

started to shrink to a normal size for a human. He 

walked down calmly and when he reached the ground he 

saw his mother pacing around the beanstalk with an 

extremely worried look on her face. Before Jack could 

even start explaining what had happened his mother 

started to yell at him. 

“Where in the world have you been? Do you know how 

worried I was? Jack, young man, you have some –” his 

mother started saying but she was cut off by Jack.

“Mother, look here,” Jack said as he held up the two bags 

of money, “Two bags full of gold coins!” Jack explained 

the whole adventure to his mother with much 

excitement.

Jack and his mother were now quite rich and were able 

to sustain a nice life with the money Jack had taken 

from the giant, but he was getting curious about how 

the giant and his life were living now. He then decided 

that he would go back up the beanstalk and go visit the 

giant's home.

    Jack sneaked out his house early in the morning and 

walked up the beanstalk. He walked towards the large 

house and found the giant's wife outside of the house 

again, but this time she was hunched over the lower 

hinge of the front door. He approached her slowly.

“Excuse me ma'am. May I ask what you are doing?” 

Jack asked. The giant's wife look around and saw Jack 

but did not recognize him from the last time he visited.

“I'm trying to fix this door but I can't seem to do it 

properly,” she replied. After hearing this, Jack offered to 

help fix the door and asked her to bring a screwdriver 

and a screw. The giant's wife went inside and brought 

out what Jack asked for and handed it to him. Although 

he had trouble fixing the door hinge, he was able to 

unscrew the screw in the door frame using the 

screwdriver and screw in a new one. The giant's wife 

swung open the door and closed it several times to check 

if it was fixed, and it was perfectly fine.

“Now that I've fixed your front door, could I have 

something to eat please?”Jack asked. Although the giant's 

wife was cautious because of the event before, she let 

him in and gave him some food as a sign of gratitude.

Like before, the giant's wife took him into the kitchen and sat him on 

top of the table. She took out a can opener and opened a can of 

peaches that she took out from the cabinets. She poured half of the 

peaches into a bowl and placed it in front of Jack.

    He finished eating the whole bowl after twenty-five minutes. Right 

when he was about to head out, the giant's footsteps were able to be 

heard. When the giant's wife heard his footsteps, she grabbed Jack and 

put him in the same tea kettle as before. 

“Fe, fi, fo, fum, 

I smell the blood of an Englishman; 

be he alive or be he dead; 

I'll grind his bones to make my bread,” roared the giant. The giant's wife 

told him that he was mistaken and gave him his breakfast. When the 

giant finished eating, he told his wife to bring in his special hen. She did 

as she was told and brought in a hen that had a magical glow to it. Once 

it was in front of him he commanded the hen. 

“Lay me my eggs!” commanded the giant. After he 

said that, the hen laid three golden eggs. After a 

few minutes of commanding the hen to lay golden 

eggs he fell asleep in the chair. 

     Jack saw this opportunity and scrambled his way 

towards the hen as fast as he could. Once he 

reached the hen, he picked it up and ran towards 

the beanstalk as fast as he could and climbed down 

swiftly. When he reached the bottom he cried out 

for his mother to come and look at the amazing 

hen.

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