<aside> 💡 Note: This is the story that Benj and Justin will adapt for their own musical throughout the class!
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A poor boy named Jack lives in the country with his widowed mother. One day, Jack's mother asks him to go to town and trade the family cow for money, but instead, he trades it for magic beans. When Jack returns home with the beans, his mother throws them out the window in anger. Jack awakens the next morning to find the beans have sprouted into an enormous beanstalk leading up to a magical kingdom in the sky.
English Fairy Tale
Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_and_the_Beanstalk
Full text (under "Jack and the Beanstalk"): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7439