Fearless Jack

by Paul Brett Johnson

Book Overview

"Back some time ago when folks still had to worry about giants and wild unicorns and such, there was an old woman and her son, Jack." So begins this tall tale from the heart of Appalachia about Jack,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689832966
• ISBN13: 9780689832963
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.3" x 11.4"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Just great!

Be prepared for your child to start speaking in a heavy southern draw and using funny mountain expressions.

Mountain Storytelling at its Best

Award-winning illustrator and children's book writer Paul Brett Johnson interprets this 600-year-old Jack tale with an Eastern Kentucky twist. The boy-hero and his dog whack a swarm of yellow jackets, capture a wild boar, tangle with a grizzly bear, and trap a unicorn. Johnson's text is a delightful and accessible recreation of mountain speech, and his energetic paintings are richly detailed and laugh-out-loud funny....