Kate and Mim-Mim: Tack and the Beanstalk by Lana Jacobs - ADVISABLE

Jacobs, Lana Kate and Mim-Mim: Tack and the Beanstalk.  EARLY READER BOOK.  Penguin Young Readers, 2016.  $4.  9780515159110

A spin on “Jack and the Beanstalk”, Kate is playing in the garden and watching plants grow.  She goes with Mim-Mim to Mimiloo where all of her friend’s plant bean seeds.  Tack brings a giant bean seed that grows into an enormous beanstalk where they meet a giant.  A new twist on the ending though. 

Penguin Young Readers Level 2, guided reading level I.  Children will like the new twist on a very recognizable story.  The illustrations are bright and very accurately depict the characters from the television series.

Pre-K, EL (K-3) – ADVISABLE.  Samantha Hastings, MA, MLS.