"I smell the blood of an Englishwoman.Be she alive or be she dead,I'll grind her bones to make my bread."Mary Pope Osborne's funny, magical retelling of a favorite tale and Giselle Potter's enchantin
In this version of the classic Jack and the Beanstalk tale, a girl climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk, where she uses her quick wits to outsmart a giant and make her and her mother's fortune.
A beautiful baby, a sinister spell, a pricked finger, a hundred-year sleep, a true-love wake-up kiss. We all know the story of Sleeping Beauty, but not the one that Will and Mary Pope Osborne tell --
When we say that `Love is blind' or `Time flies' - making concepts sound like living beings - we are using the language of allegory. Painters have long relied on allegory to create `message pictures'.
