I absolutely loved this book! I used this book in my economics lesson for bartering. I showed the students how Jack bartered his cow for the magic beans. As I read the book to my students, you could of heard a pin drop in the classroom. The students were hanging on every word of the book as well as the illustrations. I thought that this book went along very well with bartering and it allowed the students to make a connection with the topic of bartering. This is the book that turned me on to Steven Kellogg and I have checked out many books by him to finish my blog.
I think that as an author and illustrator Steven Kellogg is very talented and has the ability to capture the audience from the very beginning. To be able to have 23 second grade students sit and hang on every word of a book is amazing. The illustrations caught my attention as well. I was trying to figure out which version of Jack and the Beanstalk to buy, when I came to this version I was totally captivated by the pictures. Steven Kellogg has the special gift of being an author/illustrator that can captivate the audience from the very beginning of the story by just the illustrations.
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