Everyone knows the cool beans. They're sooooo cool. And then there's the uncool has-bean ... Always on the sidelines, one bean unsuccessfully tries everything he can to fit in with the crowd--until one day the cool beans show him how it's done.

Take turns reading with your beginning reader; left-hand pages are to be read by adult; right-hand pages are to be read by child. Jack trades his family's only cow for 5 beans. From these beans grows a magic beanstalk, which reaches to the sky and the home of a giant. Climbing, the beanstalk, Jack must outwit the giant to reclaim his family's golden treasures!