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Today we're going to be reading to you Jack and the Beanstalk.
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Once upon a time there was a boy named Jack.
Jack lived with his mom in a small town where nothing exciting ever happened.
It was SO BORING there that the number one pastime was watching paint dry.
Every Saturday Jack’s mom would send him to the market in a neighboring town to get groceries.
This particular Saturday
Jack went and spent all of the grocery money on just three little beans!
"These are no ordinary beans,
"They're MAGIC beans!
"Do you like magic?”
"Yeah!"
“Well, then, you’ll love these beans!”
And just like that, he snatched Jack’s money and was gone in a puff of smoke.
He DID disappear like a magician...
so the beans MUST be magical!
Jack ran home super-duper excited about the magic beans.
He showed his mom.
She didn’t believe in magic, and she scolded Jack.
Then she threw the beans right out the window!
But good thing she did because that night
the beans grew into a giant beanstalk!
It went all the way to the sky.
Just imagine if they had grown like that inside the house...that would have been messy!
This was the first exciting thing that had ever happened in their town,
so everybody came to look.
But Jack was the only one brave enough to climb to the top.
When he reached the very tip top he saw a whole new world where everything was HUGE.
It was like a place for giants!
He felt so small here. He was the same size as a mouse!
It was a little scary being that small, but he had to go explore!
Whoa! They had a GIANT tv!
It was like a movie theater screen! Cool!
Just then the floor started to rumble!
Was it an earthquake?
"Eek!"
It was a real, live GIANT!
"FEE FI FO FUM! I smell the feet of a little one!"
"Hey! My feet don’t stink!"
Then he remembered he was very tiny compared to this giant,
so maybe now wasn’t the time to argue…
But the giant had already heard him.
Although to him it sounded more like this:
[squeaky voice] "Hey! My feet don’t stink!"
And just to be perfectly honest,
Jack’s feet were a little stinky…
But that’s beside the point,
the giant had found Jack!
He ran to the beanstalk,
and slid down faster than that one time he went down the big waterslide at Six Flags.
Phew! He made it!
But not before the giant saw the beanstalk, and that was bad.
That was very, very bad.
You see, the giants who lived up in the clouds
had never had a way to get down to the earth below where all the people live.
But now they had big beanstalk to climb up and down whenever they wanted.
Now Jack’s town was like the giants’ downstairs rec room,
full of snacks and amusement!
Luckily, the giants were vegetarians so no one had to worry about being eaten.
But they did have to worry about being
SMASHED!
The giants loved Jack’s little town.
They ran around and played tag,
which caused a lot of rumbling and shaking and made a very big mess.
The giants also thought the humans were adorable and they started to treat them like pets
putting funny sweaters on them, and naming them things like “Mr. Fluffy” and “Bingo!”
"Pretty little pet!"
"We have to get rid of the giants!!"
"FEE FI FO FUM! I tickle you on your tum-tum!"
Jack and the other townsfolk held a meeting to discuss how to get rid of the giants.
“I say we build a giant trap!”
“That would take weeks!”
“How about we all just move?”
"We’re going to have to cut down the beanstalk!"
"Chopping down the beanstalk does no good if some giants are still down here,
squashing all the real estate!”
"And eating all the corn!”
“And calling me Fluffykins!”
“Yeah, they’d be down here FOREVER. No thanks!”
“Okay okay, so we just have to get them all back up there at once...
"I have a plan. We’re going to need a very big saw, a parachute, and all the cute stuff we can find!”
Jack’s plan started with all the townspeople hiding in their basements.
Jack put on all the most annoyingly adorable stuff the giants had been making the people wear.
He put on a fuzzy sweater with a smiley face that lit up,
a little hat with bells,
bunny slippers,
pants that had a My Little Pony tail,
and a bib that said “I’m the baby, gotta love me!”
Then he ran out into the town square and yelled out.
“Hey, look at how cute I am! I’m sooooo cute!
"Whoever catches me gets to keep me as their pet forever!”
Well, the giants thought he was ADORABLE.
They went to scoop him up, but he was too fast!
"Catch me if you can!"
The giggling giants chased Jack all through town, past Jack’s house, and right up the beanstalk.
He ran around until the very last giant had followed him up the stalk.
Once they were all there, he ran to the edge of the giant world and jumped.
This is where the parachute came in handy.
Jack sailed through the sky. The townspeople took that as their cue to chop!
The mayor shouted “Mr. Lumberjack, tear down that stalk!”
The townspeople cheered as the stalk teetered and wobbled.
The lumberjack yelled out “TIMBERRRR!!!”
and the big beanstalk crashed to the ground!
Jack landed and everyone hoisted him on their shoulders chanting
“Yay, Jack!”
The giant beanstalk turned the town into a huge tourist attraction.
Lookie-lous from all over the world wanted to come and see the big stalk
and the brave hero who defeated giants.
The end.
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