Everyone has heard the story Jack and the Beanstalk. Well this is a play on that story. Jack is a scientist in this book who loves to garden. He decided that he wanted to impress all of his gardener friends by having the fastest growing plants. So he went into his laboratory and got to work. Eventually his plant became enormous. It started creating problems like wrecking homes and towns with it's roots and blocking all the sunlight with its leaves. So the animals got together and destroyed the plant by chewing through its roots. I didn't enjoy this book as much as I thought I would. I really liked the original version so I thought maybe this one would be good. It was a little dull.
I really wasn't a fan of the illustrations either. They were a little weird to me. The colors of the meanstalk and the colors and pattern on the monster were just not my taste. I think the reason this book is considered science fiction would be because of the enormous plant of course but also there are talking animals in the book. Probably not going to remember this book.
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