Jack and the Beanstalk

©Nina Crews 2011Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
“What’s that noise?” said the giant. “What’s that smell? Fee, fie, foe, fum, I smell me a young ‘un! Looks like your cookies caught us a new boy!”
“Dear,” said the giant’s wife, “try to be gentle with this one. You don’t know your own strength.”
“”Me?” he said. “I’m a pussycat. That last boy was worthless.”

