Jack and the Beanstalk

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Jack, a poor country boy, traded the family cow for a handful of magic beans, much to the dismay of his widowed mother. However, that very night, the beans grew into a massive, towering beanstalk reaching up into the clouds. Jack climbed the beanstalk and found himself in the castle of an unfriendly giant. Jack went inside and found the giant's wife in the kitchen. Jack said, "Could you please give me something to eat? I am so hungry!". The kind wife gave him bread and some milk. While he was eating, the giant came home, whereupon the wife hid Jack in the oven. The giant, who was very big and looked very fearsome, sensed Jack's presence and cried, "Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive, or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread!" The wife said, "There is no boy in here!" So, the giant ate his food and then went to his room. He took out his sacks of gold coins, counted them and kept them aside. Then he went to sleep. In the night, Jack crept out of his hiding place, took one sack of gold coins and climbed down the beanstalk. At home, he gave the coins to his mother. His mother was very happy and they lived well for some time.

Jack climbed the beanstalk and went to the giant's house again. Once again, Jack asked the giant's wife for food, but while he was eating the giant returned. Jack leapt up in fright and went and hid under the bed. The giant cried, "Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive, or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread!" The wife said, "There is no boy in here!" The giant ate his food and went to his room. There, he took out a hen. He shouted, "Lay!" and the hen laid a golden egg. When the giant fell asleep, Jack took the hen and climbed down the beanstalk. Jack's mother was very happy with him.

After some days, Jack once again climbed the beanstalk and went to the giant's castle. For the third time, Jack met the giant's wife and asked for some food. Once again, the giant's wife gave him bread and milk. But while Jack was eating, the giant came home. "Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive, or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread!" cried the giant. "Don't be silly! There is no boy in here!" said his wife.

The giant had a magical harp that could play beautiful songs. While the giant slept, Jack took the harp and was about to leave. Suddenly, the magic harp cried, "Help master! A boy is stealing me!" The giant woke up and saw Jack with the harp. Furious, he ran after Jack. But Jack was too fast for him. He ran down the beanstalk and reached home. The giant followed him down. Jack quickly ran inside his house, fetched an axe, and chopped down the beanstalk. The giant fell and died.

Jack and his mother were now very rich and they lived happily ever after.{{cite book |title=The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales |last=Tatar |first=Maria |author-link=Maria Tatar |year=2002 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Co. |location=New York |isbn=0-393-05163-3 |chapter=Jack and the Beanstalk |pages=131–144 }}

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"The Story of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean" was published in London by J. Roberts in the 1734 second edition of Round About Our Coal-Fire. In 1807, English writer Benjamin Tabart published The History of Jack and the Bean Stalk, possibly actually edited by William and/or Mary Jane Godwin.[http://hockliffe.dmu.ac.uk/items/0019.html Anon., The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk], at [http://hockliffe.dmu.ac.uk/ The Hockliffe Project]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090426032334/http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/AnaServer?hockliffe+2290+hoccview.anv |date=26 April 2009 }}

The story is older than these accounts. According to researchers at Durham University and the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, the tale type (AT 328, The Boy Steals Ogre's Treasure) to which the Jack story belongs may have had a Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) origin (the same tale also has Proto-Indo-Iranian variants),{{citation | last1 = Silva |first1 = Sara | last2= Tehrani | first2= Jamshid | year = 2016 | title = Comparative phylogenetic analyses uncover the ancient roots of Indo-European folktales | journal = Royal Society Open Science | volume = 3 | issue =1 |page = 150645 | doi = 10.1098/rsos.150645 |pmid = 26909191 |pmc = 4736946 |bibcode = 2016RSOS....350645D | doi-access = free }} and so some think that the story would have originated millennia ago (4500 BC to 2500 BC).

In some versions of the tale, the giant is unnamed, but many plays based on it name him Blunderbore (one giant of that name appears in the 18th-century tale "Jack the Giant Killer"). In "The Story of Jack Spriggins" the giant is named Gogmagog.{{cite book |title=The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=305}}

The giant's catchphrase "Fee-fi-fo-fum! I smell the blood of an Englishman" appears in William Shakespeare's King Lear (c. 1606) in the form "Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man" (Act 3, Scene 4),Tatar, The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales, p. 136. and something similar also appears in "Jack the Giant Killer".

"Jack and the Beanstalk" is an Aarne-Thompson tale-type 328, The Treasures of the Giant, which includes the Italian "Thirteenth" and the French "How the Dragon Was Tricked" tales. Christine Goldberg argues that the Aarne-Thompson system is inadequate for the tale because the others do not include the beanstalk, which has analogies in other types{{cite journal |last=Goldberg |first=Christine|title=The composition of Jack and the beanstalk |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mat/summary/v015/15.1goldberg.html |journal=Marvels and Tales |year=2001 |volume=15 |pages=11–26 |doi=10.1353/mat.2001.0008 |s2cid=162333097 |access-date=2011-05-28 |postscript= (a possible reference to the genre anomaly).|url-access=subscription }}Ashliman, D. L., ed. [http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0328jack.html "Jack and the Bensalk: eight versions of an English fairy tale (Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 328)"]. 2002–2010. Folklore and Mythology: Electronic Texts. University of Pittsburgh. 1996–2013.

The Brothers Grimm drew an analogy between this tale and a German fairy tale, "The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs". The devil's mother or grandmother acts much like the giant's wife, a female figure protecting the child from the evil male figure.Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. [https://www.surlalunefairytales.com/book.php?id=33&tale=1148 "Devil With the Three Golden Hairs, The".] Grimm's Household Tales: Annotated Tale at SurLaLune Fairy Tales.

Iona and Peter Opie (The Classic Fairy Tales 1974 p.163) saw instead parallel's with the Grimm's tale 'The Flail from Heaven'.

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The original story portrays a "hero" gaining the sympathy of a man's wife, hiding in his house, robbing him, and finally killing him. In Tabart's moralized version, a fairy woman explains to Jack that the giant had robbed and murdered his father justifying Jack's actions as retributionTatar, Off with Their Heads! p. 198. (Andrew Lang follows this version in the Red Fairy Book of 1890). The story published by Jacobs gives no explicit justification because there was none in the version he had heard as a child, but it has a subtle retributive tone by mentioning the giant's previous meals of stolen oxen and young children.[https://www.surlalunefairytales.com/h-r/jack-beanstalk/jack-beanstalk-annotations.html Annotations to "Jack & the Beanstalk: Annotated Tale"] at SurLaLune Fairy Tales.

Many modern interpretations have followed Tabart and made the giant a villain, terrorizing smaller folk and stealing from them, so that Jack becomes a legitimate protagonist. For example, the 1952 film starring Abbott and Costello the giant is blamed for poverty at the foot of the beanstalk, as he has been stealing food and wealth and the hen that lays golden eggs originally belonged to Jack's family. In other versions, it is implied that the giant had stolen both the hen and the harp from Jack's father. Brian Henson's 2001 TV miniseries Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story not only abandons Tabart's additions but vilifies Jack, reflecting Jim Henson's disgust at Jack's unscrupulous actions.Nazzaro, Joe (February 2002). "Back to the Beanstalk", Starlog Fantasy Worlds, pp. 56–59.

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• The first film adaptation was made in 1902 by Edwin S. Porter for the Edison Manufacturing Company.
• Abbott and Costello starred in a 1952 comic retelling of the fairy tale, produced by Costello and distributed by Warner Bros.
• Michael Davis directed a 1994 adaptation, titled Beanstalk, starring J. D. Daniels as Jack and Stuart Pankin as the giant. The film was released by Moonbeam Entertainment, the children's video division of Full Moon Entertainment.
• Avalon Family Entertainment's 2009 Jack and the Beanstalk is a low-budget live-action adaptation starring Christopher Lloyd, Chevy Chase, James Earl Jones, Gilbert Gottfried, Katey Sagal, Wallace Shawn and Chloë Grace Moretz. Jack is played by Colin Ford.
• A Warner Bros. film directed by Bryan Singer and starring Nicholas Hoult as Jack is titled Jack the Giant Slayer and was released in March 2013.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1351685/ "Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)"]. IMDb. Retrieved 18 November 2020 In this tale, which is amalgamated with "Jack the Giant Killer", Jack climbs the beanstalk to save a princess and thwart an attempted coup using a magic crown that would allow humans to control the giants.
• Jack the Giant Killer is a 2013 low-budget film adaptation from The Asylum.
• In the 2014 film Into the Woods, and the musical of the same name, one of the main characters, Jack (Daniel Huttlestone) climbs a beanstalk, much like in the original version. He acquires a golden harp, a hen that lays golden eggs, and several gold pieces. The story goes on as it does in the original fairy tale, but continues on past the "happily ever after". In this adaptation, the giant's vengeful widow (Frances de la Tour) attacks the kingdom to find and kill Jack as revenge for him murdering her husband, where some characters were killed during her rampage. The giant's wife is eventually killed by the surviving characters in the story.

• Gilligan's Island did in 1965 an adaptation/dream sequence in the second-season episode "'V' for Vitamins" in which Gilligan tries to take oranges from a giant Skipper and fails. The part of the little Gilligan chased by the giant was played by Bob Denver's 7-year-old son Patrick Denver.
• In 1973 the story was adapted, as The Goodies and the Beanstalk, in the BBC television comedy series The Goodies.
• In Season 2 Episode 4 aired September 8, 1983, [Shelley Duvall's] Faerie Tale Theatre made an adaptation of the story titled "Jack and the Beanstalk." It starred Dennis Christopher as Jack, Elliott Gould as the Giant, Jean Stapleton as the Giantess, Katherine Helmond as Jack's Mother, and Mark Blankfield as the Strange Little Man. It was written by Rod Ash and Mark Curtiss and directed by Lamont Johnson.
• In the Season 3 premiere 1995 episode of Barney & Friends titled "Shawn and the Beanstalk", Barney the Dinosaur and the gang tell their version of Jack and the Beanstalk, which was all told in rhyme.
• Beanstalks and Bad Eggs a 1997, episode of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys episode
• A Season 2 1999 episode of The Hughleys titled "Two Jacks & a Beanstalk" shows a retelling of the story where Jack Jr. (Michael, Dee Jay Daniels) buys magical beans as a means of gaining wealth and giving his family happiness and health. He & Jack Sr. (Darryl, D.L. Hughley) climb the beanstalk to see what prosperity awaits them.
• The Jim Henson Company did a TV miniseries adaptation of the story as Jim Henson's Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story in 2001 (directed by Brian Henson) which reveals that Jack's theft from the giant was completely unmotivated, while the giant Thunderdell (played by Bill Barretta) was a friendly, welcoming individual, and the giant's subsequent death was caused by Jack's mother cutting the beanstalk down rather than Jack himself. The film focuses on Jack's modern-day descendant Jack Robinson (played by Matthew Modine) who learns the truth after the discovery of the giant's bones and the last of the five magic beans. Jack subsequently returns the goose and harp to the giants' kingdom.
• In an episode of Tweenies (1999-2002) titled "Jake and the Beanstalk", the characters perform a pantomime based on the story with Jake as the role of Jack and Judy as the giant. The title "Jake and the Beanstalk" was also used for an episode of Jake and the Never Land Pirates.
• ABC's Once Upon a Time (2011-2018) debuts their spin on the tale in the episode "Tiny" of Season Two, Tallahassee where Jack, now a woman named Jacqueline (known as Jack) is played by Cassidy Freeman and the giant, named Anton, is played by Jorge Garcia. In this adaptation, Jack is portrayed as a villainous character. In Season Seven, a new iteration of Jack (portrayed by Nathan Parsons) is a recurring character and Henry Mills' first friend in the New Enchanted Forest. It was mentioned that he and Henry fought some giants. He debuts in "The Eighth Witch". In Hyperion Heights, he is cursed as Nick Branson and is a lawyer and Lucy's fake father. Later episodes revealed that his real name is Hansel, who is hunting witches.
• The story appears in a 2017 commercial for the British breakfast cereal Weetabix, where the giant is scared off by an English boy who has had a bowl of Weetabix: "Fee fi fo fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman", with the boy responding: "Fee fi fo fix, I've just had my Weetabix".[http://www.talkingretail.com/products-news/grocery/weetabix-launches-10m-campaign-jack-beanstalk-ad/ "Weetabix launches £10m campaign with Jack and the Beanstalk ad"]. Talking Retail. Retrieved 17 May 2017
• The 2020 Japanese tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Saber adopts the story as a "Wonder Ride Book" called Jackun-to-domamenoki, which is originally used by one of the protagonists, Kamen Rider Saber, but later becomes one of Kamen Rider Buster's main Wonder Ride Books.
• Episode 1165 of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (original airdate April 2, 1971) features a marionette show of the story (replacing the usual "Neighborhood of Make Believe" segment), in which the giant was the cause of Jack's poverty, and was holding a princess prisoner. Ultimately the same carny who had sold Jack the magic beans ends up hiring the giant as a sideshow act, producing a happy ending for everybody.

• Jack and the Beanstalk is a 1931 Fleischer Studios Talkartoon animated short film starring Bimbo and Betty Boop.{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |page=142}}
• Giantland is a 1933 animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by United Artists. The short is the first is an adaptation of the fairy tale by Disney with Mickey Mouse in the title role.{{cite book |last1=Grob |first1=Gijs |title=Mickey's Movies: The Theatrical Films of Mickey Mouse |date=2018 |publisher=Theme Park Press |isbn=978-1683901235 |chapter=Part Four: Mickey Mouse Superstar}} It was the 62nd Mickey Mouse short film, and the twelfth of that year.{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/108/mode/2up |pages=108–109}}
• In 1947 Mickey and the Beanstalk was released as part of Fun and Fancy Free. This the second adaptation of the story by Disney and put Mickey Mouse in the role of Jack, accompanied by Donald Duck and Goofy to rescue the Golden Harp and save Happy Valley from a giant named "Willie" in this version. This version of the fairy tale was narrated by Edgar Bergen with commentary by his dummies Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd and child actor Luana Patten in the original feature; this segment was later re-released as part of Walt Disney anthology television series and narrated first by Sterling Holloway and then by Professor Ludwig Von Drake and his best friend Herman, a bootle beetle.
• In the 2010s, Walt Disney Animation Studios had plans to do another adaptation of the fairy tale called Gigantic. Tangled director Nathan Greno was to direct and it was set to be released in late 2020. On October 10, 2017, its cancellation for creative struggles was announced.{{cite news|last1=Kit|first1=Borys|title=Disney Shelves 'Jack and the Beanstalk' Film 'Gigantic' (Exclusive)|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/disney-shelves-jack-beanstalk-film-gigantic-1047482/|access-date=October 10, 2017|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=January 1, 2025}}
• Walter Lantz produced two shorts of Woody Woodpecker based on Jack and the Beanstalk:
• The first being Woody the Giant Killer from 1947, where Woody faces the giant to take over his castle.
• The second being Woody and the Beanstalk from 1966, where Woody meets the giant's son who became heir to the castle after his father died chasing Jack. This short was directed by Paul Smith.
• Warner Bros. adapted the story into three Merrie Melodies cartoons.
• Friz Freleng directed Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk (1943),
• Chuck Jones directed Beanstalk Bunny (1955) where Elmer Fudd is the giant,
• Freleng directed Tweety and the Beanstalk (1957).
• In the animated movie Puss in Boots, the classic theme appears again. The magic beans play a central role in that movie, culminating in the scene, in which its titular character, Kitty Softpaws and Humpty Alexander Dumpty ride a magic beanstalk to find the giant's castle.
• Warner Bros. Animation's direct-to-DVD film Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure is based on the fairy tale.{{cite news|title=Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure Blu-ray|url=http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=11000 |access-date=2013-04-25 |newspaper=Blu-ray.com|date=April 25, 2013}}
• Skydance Animation is developing an animated version of Jack and the Beanstalk with former Walt Disney Animation Studios director Rich Moore attached. The project will be released directly to Netflix.{{cite web|title=Netflix Sets Skydance Animation In Multi-Year Deal, First Up Is Alan Menken Musical 'Spellbound;' Rachel Zegler, Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem Star|url=https://deadline.com/2023/10/netflix-pacts-skydance-animation-in-multi-year-deal-alan-menken-musical-spellbound-rachel-zegler-nicole-kidman-javier-bardem-star-1235577207/|website=Deadline Hollywood|last=Fleming|first=Mike Jr.|date=October 18, 2023|access-date=October 18, 2023}}
• In 2024, the winner of the Doric Film Festival, Spirit of the Festival Award was Aaron Gayle{{Cite web |title=Doric Film Festival 2024 - Winners 2024 |url=https://doricfilmfestival.com/doric-film-festival-2024/ |access-date=2024-06-26 |website=Doric Film Festival |language=en-GB}} for his animated version of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEtzczVCf-k&list=PLcvOU8BPWVSaaWE7BDMfWNkA0_0uFzXx9&index=1 Jack an e Beanstalk] with all characters speaking the North-east Scotland dialect (Doric), and with an amusing twist in the tale of the Giant's demise. This was his second award as the previous year, he won for an original animated version of The Three Little Pigs, in Doric The Three Wee Grumphies.{{Cite web |date=2024-06-19 |title=Doric Film Festival recognises north-east talents |url=https://www.grampianonline.co.uk/news/doric-film-festival-recognises-north-east-talents-353592/ |access-date=2024-06-26 |website=Grampian Online |language=en}}

• Gisaburo Sugii directed a feature-length anime telling of the story released in 1974, titled Jack to Mame no Ki. The film, a musical, was produced by Group TAC and released by Nippon Herald. The writers introduced a few new characters, including Jack's comic-relief dog, Crosby, and Margaret, a beautiful princess engaged to be married to the giant (named "Tulip" in this version) due to a spell being cast over her by the giant's mother (an evil witch called Madame Hecuba). Jack develops a crush on Margaret, and one of his aims in returning to the magic kingdom is to rescue her. The film was dubbed into English, with legendary voice talent Billie Lou Watt voicing Jack, and received a very limited run in U.S. theaters in 1976. It was later released on VHS (now out of print) and aired several times on HBO in the 1980s. It is now available on DVD with English or Japanese audio.

• The Three Stooges had their own five-minute animated retelling, titled Jack and the Beanstalk (1965).
• In 1967, Hanna-Barbera produced a live action version of Jack and the Beanstalk, with Gene Kelly as Jeremy the Peddler (who trades his magic beans for Jack's cow), Bobby Riha as Jack, Dick Beals as Jack's singing voice, Ted Cassidy as the voice of the animated giant, Janet Waldo as the voice of the animated Princess Serena, Marni Nixon as Serena's singing voice, and Marian McKnight as Jack's mother.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061830/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm Jack and the Beanstalk (1967 TV Movie), Full Cast & Crew, imdb.com] The songs were written by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwfiKhRz-qw | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200215224953/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwfiKhRz-qw&gl=US&hl=en| archive-date=2020-02-15 | url-status=dead|title=Jack and the Beanstalk, 1967, YouTube |publisher=YouTube.com |access-date=2018-02-06}} Kelly also directed the Emmy Award-winning film.{{cite book|last=Barbera|first=Joseph|title=My Life in "Toons": From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century|year=1994|publisher=Turner Publishing|location=Atlanta, GA|isbn=1-57036-042-1|pages=[https://archive.org/details/mylifeintoonsfro00barb/page/162 162–65]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/mylifeintoonsfro00barb/page/162}}
• A Hungarian variant of the tale was adapted into an episode of the Hungarian television series Magyar népmesék ("Hungarian Folk Tales") (hu) in 1977, with the title Az égig érő paszuly ("The Giant Beanstalk").{{cite web |title=Animated Hungarian folk tales. |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1358716/ |website=Magyar népmesék (TV Series 1980-2012) |publisher=Magyar Televízió Müvelödési Föszerkesztöség (MTV) (I), Pannónia Filmstúdió |access-date=11 January 2021 |date=27 November 1980}}
• In the PBS Kids television series Super Why! (2007-2016) the main protagonist Whyatt Beanstalk is the middle brother of the protagonist of Jack and The Beanstalk. Whyatt changes into Super Why with The Power to Read.
• In the 2016 a television adaptation of Revolting Rhymes based on Roald Dahl's modernisation of the tale was released, where Jack lives next door to Cinderella and is in love with her.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/revoltingrhymes |title=Revolting Rhymes: Two half-hour animated films based on the much-loved rhymes written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake|website=BBC Media Centre |access-date=2018-02-26}}

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• The story is often performed a traditional British Christmas pantomime, wherein the Giant has a henchman, traditionally named Fleshcreep, the pantomime villain, Jack's mother is the Dame, and Jack is the Principal boy. Fleshcreep is the enemy of a fairy who helps Jack in his quest and Jack has a love interest, usually the daughter of a King, Queen, Baron or Squire, who gets kidnapped by Fleshcreep.{{cite news |title=Cast of Jack and the Beanstalk are ready for panto season |url=https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18006142.cast-jack-beanstalk-ready-panto-season-lighthouse-poole/ |access-date=18 November 2020 |newspaper=Bournemouth Echo}}

• Jack of Jack and the Beanstalk is the protagonist of the comic book Jack of Fables, a spin-off of Fables, which also features other elements from the story, such as giant beanstalks and giants living in the clouds. The Cloud Kingdoms first appear in issue #50 and is shown to exist in their own inter-dimensional way, being a world of their own but at the same time existing over all of the other worlds.
• Roald Dahl rewrote the story in a more modern and gruesome way in his book Revolting Rhymes (1982), where Jack initially refuses to climb the beanstalk and his mother is thus eaten when she ascends to pick the golden leaves at the top, with Jack recovering the leaves himself after having a thorough wash so that the giant cannot smell him. The story of Jack and the Beanstalk is also referenced in Dahl's The BFG, in which the evil giants are all afraid of the "giant-killer" Jack, who is said to kill giants with his fearsome beanstalk (although none of the giants appear to know how Jack uses it against them, the context of a nightmare that one of the giants has about Jack suggesting that they think that he wields the beanstalk as a weapon).
• James Still published Jack and the Wonder Beans (1977, republished 1996) an Appalachian variation on the Jack and the Beanstalk tale. Jack trades his old cow to a gypsy for three beans that are guaranteed to feed him for his entire life. It has been adapted as a play for performance by children.[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36324641 Jack and the wonder beans (Book, 1996)]. [WorldCat.org]. Retrieved on 2013-07-29.
• A children's book, What Jill Did While Jack Climbed the Beanstalk, was published in 2020 by Edward Zlotkowski. It takes place at the same time as Jack's adventure, but it tells the story of what his sister encounters when she ventures out to help the family and neighbors.[https://www.badgerandfoxandfriends.com/what-jill-did-while-jack-climbed-the-beanstalk/ What Jill Did While Jack Climbed the Beanstalk]. Badger and Fox and Friends.

• An arcade video game, Jack the Giantkiller, was released by Cinematronics in 1982 and is based on the story. Players control Jack, and must retrieve a series of treasures – a harp, a sack of gold coins, a golden goose and a princess – and eventually defeat the giant by chopping down the beanstalk.
• Jumpin' Kid: Jack to Mame no Ki Monogatari was released 1990 in Japan for the Family Computer. A North American release was planned but ultimately scrapped. The game was known in Poland, Russia and other non-NES countries via Famiclones{{cite web|url=http://superfamicom.org/famicom/info/jumpin-kid-jack-to-mame-no-ki-monogatari/ |title=Title name translation |publisher=SuperFamicom.org |access-date=2011-05-24 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509215232/http://superfamicom.org/famicom/info/jumpin-kid-jack-to-mame-no-ki-monogatari |archive-date=2012-05-09 }}
• Bart Simpson plays the role of the main character in a Simpsons video game: The Simpsons: Bart & the Beanstalk.
• Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster and the Beanstalk is the only Tiny Toon Adventures-related video game released for MS-DOS and various other systems. It was developed and published by Terraglyph Interactive Studios in 1996.
• Tiny Toon Adventures: The Great Beanstalk (also known as Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster and the Beanstalk{{cite web | url = http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/psx/data/572535.html | title = Game Data | publisher = GameFAQs | access-date = 2008-04-21}} in Europe) is the first Tiny Toon Adventures game released on the PlayStation. It was developed by Terraglyph Interactive Studios and published by NewKidCo on October 27, 1998.

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• Stephen Sondheim's 1986 musical Into the Woods features Jack, originally portrayed by Ben Wright, along with several other fairy tale characters. In the second half of the musical, the giant's wife climbs down a second (inadvertently planted) beanstalk to exact revenge for her husband's death, furious at Jack's betrayal of her hospitality. The Giantess then causes the deaths of Jack's mother and other important characters before being finally killed by Jack.

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• [http://www.limelightscripts.co.uk Pantomime based on the fairytale of "Jack and the Beanstalk"]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20091101184102/http://www.storyresources.com/jack_and_the_beanstalk_felt_board_story.php Jack and the Beanstalk Felt Story] at [https://web.archive.org/web/20110724194339/http://www.storyresources.co.nz/ Story Resources]
• [https://www.surlalunefairytales.com/h-r/jack-beanstalk/jack-beanstalk-tale.html "Jack & the Beanstalk: Annotated Tale"] at [https://www.surlalunefairytales.com SurLaLune Fairy Tales] — with annotations, interpretations, illustrations, bibliography and lists of editions
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090604063717/http://afterdarktheatre.co.uk/ Adult Pantomime based on the fairytale of "Jack and the Beanstalk"]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20130112130225/http://www2.ferrum.edu/applit/bibs/tales/index.htm#Jack Jack tales in Appalachia] — including "Jack and the Bean Tree"
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080704110625/http://storynory.com/2006/01/31/jack-and-the-beanstalk-part-one/ Children's audio story of Jack and the Beanstalk] at Storynory
• [http://www.storycardtheater.com/products.html#jack Kamishibai (Japanese storycard) version] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109044856/http://www.storycardtheater.com/products.html#jack |date=2020-11-09 }} — in English, with downloadable Japanese translation
• The Disney version of [https://web.archive.org/web/20160420164752/http://www.disneyshorts.org/shorts.aspx?shortID=4 Jack and the Beanstalk] at [https://web.archive.org/web/20001204155100/http://www.disneyshorts.org/ The Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts]
• [http://www.tonightsbedtimestory.com/jack-and-the-bean-stalk/ Full text of Jack And The Bean-Stalk from "The Fairy Book"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926071854/http://www.tonightsbedtimestory.com/jack-and-the-bean-stalk/ |date=2020-09-26 }}
• [http://www.jacketleharicotmagique.fr/ Jack et le Haricot Magique - The Rock Musical by Georges Dupuis & Philippe Manca]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20160309170701/http://jackandthebeanstalk.in/ Jack And The Beanstalk - Animation movie in 4K] at Geetanjali Audios in collaboration with Film Art Music Entertainment Productions [http://fameproductions.in FAME Productions]

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Category:Plants in children's literature

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