A Pair of Jacks
4 total works
Jack's father likes to go witch-hunting. One night his son decides to follow him into the woods, where he's in for a big surprise...Hearing the name Jack the Giant Killer is enough to send a chill down the spine of any Giant, so imagine what's it's like to be a Giant called Jack...
When a baby is found in a cardboard box, he is named after the label on the box, so ends up being called This Way Up. He doesn't like it and sets about finding a new name. Can you guess what it turns out to be? Tall-Tale Jack is a rich man's servant, prone to laziness and inventing elaborate excuses for getting out of doing any work. But the truth can be stranger than fiction, and so it proves to be for this Jack...
When Jack meets some Gorgons, it's his cheesy, smelly feet that save the day, and along the way he invents gorgonzola cheese ...There were once four brothers called Jack, who all set off into the big wide world to seek their fortunes. But an Ogre turns three of them into Jackdaws, leaving it to the youngest Jack to rescue them.
What if Jack didn't swap his cow for magic beans, but exchanged her for a broomstick instead? Prince Jack is the fourth in line to the throne, so he certainly isn't expecting to be king...