Fairy tale · VoiceSmiths adaptation · 3:36
Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack swaps the family cow for five magic beans, climbs into the clouds, and tiptoes past a giant. A funny bedtime retelling where nobody falls.
Narrator
Jack
Jack's Mother
The Bean Seller
The Giant
The Giant's Wife
The Golden Harpその他の言語 · 2か国語
このストーリーについて
Jack and the Beanstalk is an English folk tale. It first appeared in print in 1734, and the version most people know comes from Joseph Jacobs's English Fairy Tales (1890). In this bedtime retelling Jack brings home only the hen and the harp, which the giant once stole, and nobody falls: the giant is left grumbling on his cloud, where his wife puts him to work.
お話の教え
Jack is brave, quick and a little bit foolish, and things turn out well because he keeps going. It is also a story about trusting a hunch and putting stolen things back where they belong.
対象
Ages 3–8
読み聞かせのコツ
- Boom out the giant's Fee! Fi! Fo! Fum! together, as loud as you dare.
- Grow the beanstalk with your hands, starting low and reaching for the ceiling.
- Ask your child: would you have swapped the cow for the beans?
よくある質問
- What is the moral of Jack and the Beanstalk?
- Courage and quick thinking can change your luck. Benjamin Tabart's 1807 version added that the giant had stolen his treasure from Jack's own father, so Jack is taking back what was wrongly taken.
- Where does Fee-fi-fo-fum come from?
- The giant's chant is older than this story. A version appears in Shakespeare's King Lear, written around 1606, and in the old tale of Jack the Giant Killer.
- Who wrote Jack and the Beanstalk?
- No single author; it is a traditional English folk tale. The earliest known printing dates from 1734, and Joseph Jacobs's 1890 retelling became the classic version.
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