Jack and the Beanstalk: An Interactive Fairy Tale Adventure

by Blake Hoena, Amit Tayal (Illustrations)

Admit it you've always wanted to know: WHAT was Jack thinking? Magic beans? Come on! Get into Jack's head and the mother's, and the giant's! as You Choose your path through three new versions of the famous fairy tale, with delightful (or disastrous!) consequences."

Genres: Fairy Tales, Choose Your Own Adventure, Childrens

112 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2015

About the author

Blake A. Hoena grew up in central Wisconsin, where, in his youth, he wrote stories about robots conquering the Moon and trolls lumbering around in the woods behind his parents house, and the fact that the trolls were hunting for little boys had nothing to do with Blake’s pesky brothers. Later, he moved to Minnesota to pursue a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Since graduating, Blake has written more than thirty books for children, including retellings of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and the Perseus and Medusa myth. Most recently, he’s working on a series of graphic novels about two space alien brothers, Eek and Ack, who are determined to conquer our big blue home.

--from the author's website

Reviews

[James · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was cool because you could choose what story you wanted to do, like choosing between magic nuts and bolts, magic jacks, and magic beans.

[Adam · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like it because it was you choose

[Alex · Rating 2 out of 5]

I wasn't a big fan of this one.

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun compilation of unique twists to the fairy tale. 😁

[Stacie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved Choose Your Own Adventures as a kid. Finding new, updated ones is great!

[Terry · Rating 4 out of 5]

The adventure "Jack and the Beanstalk", by Blake Hoena is about Jack enters the wealth of the props of the giant's castle through the magic bean, and then returns home smoothly and enjoys a happy day with his mother. In the beginning of the book, Jack family only rely on a cow to make money, until one day, the cow can't make milk, then Jack took cow to shop then sell it. As the book continues, Jack met a man who wanted to exchange cows for "magic beans", and Jack agreed. ( not finish )

[Beth Kakuma-Depew · Rating 3 out of 5]

My 6th grade son found this short Choose-Your-Path story to be funny and surprising. The normal fairy tale setting takes some unusual turns into SF genre. Just the right kind of light reading for a week night. This would have been great when he was still mastering reading in 3rd -4th grade.