Jack and the Beanstalk
Narrated by Jason Tibor
Jason Tibor brings Joseph Jacobs's classic to life—magic beans, a daring climb, and a clever boy outwitting a giant—in a lively, family-friendly listen.
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Joseph Jacobs
The folklorist who collected English Fairy Tales and Jack and the Beanstalk.
1854–1916 Fairy TaleChildren's StoryFolklore
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About Joseph Jacobs
Joseph Jacobs was an Australian-born folklorist and historian who worked in England and the United States. His English Fairy Tales (1890) and Celtic Fairy Tales gave us the best-known versions of Jack and the Beanstalk, The Three Little Pigs and Jack the Giant Killer, retold in the plain spoken style of a storyteller.
Audiobooks
Listen to Joseph Jacobs
The Battle of the Birds
Narrated by Aaron Sokalski
The tale begins with a wren. A farmer is looking for a servant, and the wren says he will do the job. A pitched battle between the birds and the beasts soon follows. Jose...
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The Legend of Knockmany
Narrated by Mary Ellin Kurtz
The giant Fin M'Coul lives with his wife Oonagh at the top of Knockmany Hill. Across the valley lives another giant, Cuhullin, so strong that no other giant can stand bef...
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The Sea Maiden
Narrated by Estelle Belong-Smrtnikova
A poor old fisherman is catching no fish. Then a sea-maiden rises beside his boat and offers him all the fish he wants, if he will promise her his first son when the boy...
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