Jack and the Beanstalk [With Finger Puppets]

By Traditional Fairy Tale

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• Format: Board book
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439288908
• ISBN13: 9780439288903
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 14 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 11.4" x 11.4"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Excellent book

The book is great with those amazing finger puppets. It’s so vivid for the children to listen this story. Just one problem: the giants finger puppets are supposed to be much bigger than Jack finger puppet.

Highly Creative, But Which One Is the Giant?

This is a simply wonderful book for stimulating young minds. Not only are the illustrations large and friendly (the giant looks more stupid than scary), but the "pages" are tough, easy-to-clean boards, ensuring a long-lasting favorite without torn pages.The puppets are tailor-made (excuse the pun) for little fingers, and can lead to hours of fun as toddlers can act out the story, make up their own dialogue, and of course use the puppets for other creative play. The only criticism I have (and it's admittedly from an adult point of view) is that all the puppets are the same size, and none looks like the giant in the book. Is this good or bad? I don't know for sure. Highly creative children will decide for themselves and probably never give it a thought. Less creative children (or very precise ones, like my son was as a young toddler) may take issue with the fact that there isn't a readily visible giant. Also, on my copy of the book, two of the puppets have faces that look mean due to the positioning of the thread that makes their mouths. I don't know, again, whether it's only my copy, or whether it's on purpose.On the whole, however, I find this concept and the book itself absolutely perfect for stimulating creative play. AND...there are four puppets, so two children can play without arguing (very important in my house, let me tell you!)

Jack and the Beanstalk

My mom bought the book 2 years ago at a bookfair for my little brother. He loves it. First I read it to him and played the puppets, but now he is 7 and a good reader himself. He loves reading this book to us and use the puppets. He even changes the voices for the characters. We have lots of fun with it. It makes reading fun!!!! I hope my review could help.