The story of Jack, the village bully, and his mother, managing alone since his father vanished in a flash of lightning, and how the beans Jack needed to shoot from his weapon grew into a beanstalk that eventually led to his parents being reunited while Jack circles the earth forever in orbit.
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Frank Herbert Muir was an English comedy screenwriter and radio and television personality. From 1977 on he also wrote children's books based on his family dog, What-a-Mess. In 1997 he published his autobiography.