Ketteman, Helen and Illustrated by Greenseid, Diane Waynetta and the Cornstalk (A Texas Fairytale) 32 pgs.Albert Whitman & Company, 2012. $6.49. Content: Language: G (0 swears); Mature Content: G ; Violence: G.
Waynetta sets out to sell her families Longhorn, but comes home with magic corn. When a cornstalk grows –she sets to climbing. She meets a pair of giants, one wants to help her, and the other wants to serve her chicken-fried style.
This book is a fun western re-telling of Jack and the Bean Stalk. The illustrations are big and bright. I am really drawn to this book because I love the thread of the recognizable traditional fairytale combined with a slice of the west. I think that students will enjoy this story.
EL - ADVISABLE Reviewer: Stephanie Elementary School Librarian & Author.
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