Jack is a young lad living with his widowed mother. Their only means of income is a cow. When this cow stops giving milk one morning, Jack is sent to the market to sell it. On the way to the market he meets an old man who offers to give him "magic" beans in exchange for the cow. Jack takes the beans but when he arrives home with no money, his mother gets angry and throws the beans out the window and sends Jack to bed without supper. As Jack sleeps, the beans grow into a gigantic beanstalk. Jack climbs the bean stalk and arrives in a land high up in the sky where he follows a road to a house, which is the home of an ogre. He enters the house and asks the ogre's wife for food. She gives him food, but the ogre returns and senses that a human is nearby: Fee-fi-fo-fum! I smell the blood of an Englishman? Be he 'live, or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread. However, Jack is hidden by the ogre's wife and overhears the ogre counting his money. Jack steals a bag of gold coins as he makes his escape down the beanstalk. Jack repeats his journey up the beanstalk two more times, each time he is helped by the increasingly suspicious wife of the ogre and narrowly escapes with one of the ogre's treasures. The second time he steals a hen which laid golden eggs and the third time a magical harp that played by itself. This time he is almost caught by the ogre who follows him down the beanstalk. Jack calls his mother for an axe and chops the beanstalk down, killing the ogre. The end of the story has Jack and his mother living happily ever after with their new riches.
The Actors
Colin Baker
Colin Baker was the 6th Doctor Who
Christopher Pizzey
Worked with Basil Brush as Mr Stephen
Emma Nowell
Hi-5 Star
| Do giants eat Englishmen with their fingers? No, they eat their fingers separately! |
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| How did Jack know how many beans his cow was worth? He used a cowculator! |
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| Jack stole a golden harp from the giant. Why couldn't he play it? Because it took a lot of pluck! |
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| Jack was always a grubby boy. You know what they say? You can lead a boy to water but you can't make him wash! |
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| Knock, knock. Who's there? Fifi. Fifi who? Fifi fiefie fofo fum I smell the blood of an Englishman! |
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| Knock, knock. Who's there? Sarah. Sarah who? Sarah giant living here? |
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| Knock, knock. Who's there? Boo. Boo who? There there ... giants don't cry! |
Puzzle of the week
Ram divided 15 pennies among four small bags.
He could then pay any sum of money from 1p to
15p, without opening any bag.
How many pennies did Ram put in each bag?
