Jack & The Beanstalk
Novels:
Crazy
Jack by Donna
Jo Napoli, Laureleaf, 2001- Seven years after Jack's father has
disappeared after climbing up a cliff to join a band of robbers Jack and his
mother are poor and Jack is known by all (including Flora, the girl he has
always loved) as "Crazy Jack" because, every year on the anniversary
of his father's disappearance, he tries to climb the cliff to find his father,
but always fails...until now.
Fables:
Legends in Exile by Bill
Willingham, DC Comics, 2003- In this graphic novel, all the fairy
tale characters have been banished from Fableland by the Adversary to modern
day New York City where they must keep their identities secret from the "mundanes."
It appears that Rose Red, the twin sister of Snow White (deputy mayor to Old
King Cole) has been murdered and her lover, the shiftless Jack, is
one of the main suspects.
Jack
of Kinrowan by Charles
de Lint, Tor Books, 1999- In modern day Ottawa Jacky Rowan learns
that there is a hidden world living alongside the one she knows when a brush
with magic gives her the Sight. Suddenly, she is pronounced "Jack"
of Kinrowan and is forced to do battle with the Unseelie Court- giants, the
Wild Hunt, bogans, hags, trolls, and evil spirits- in order to save the hidden
world, as well as her own.
"Blood
and Bone" in Truly Grim Tales by Priscilla
Galloway, Laureleaf, 1998- You'll never guess
why the Giant is so interested in grinding Jack's bones into bread
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