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Liesl Shurtliff is at it again. I read Rump when it came out and loved it. I am also a big fan of retold, twisted fairy tales. So, what did I think of this?
Jack and the Beanstalk is not my favorite folktale so it did have one strike against it. I did like it well enough though. Jack was a mischievous lad, always getting into trouble. He has grown up hearing tales of a great, great, many times great grandfather Jack the Giant Killer and wants to be like him. The problem is no one really believes ...more
Apr 29, 2016
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Audio book. In spite of slow start, a reader who got under my skin and...some bumps along the way, I still enjoyed this one.
Best fiction i've read all year!
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