Waynetta and the Cornstalk: A Texas Fairy Tale

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Times sure are tough on the ranch, and Waynetta and her ma can use all the luck they can get. But when Waynetta trades their last longhorn for a handful of so-called magic corn, Ma is non too pleased. A fast-paced Texas retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk featuring a girl hero.
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Overview


Times sure are tough on the ranch, and Waynetta and her ma can use all the luck they can get. But when Waynetta trades their last longhorn for a handful of so-called magic corn, Ma is non too pleased. A fast-paced Texas retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk featuring a girl hero.
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"The action-packed, neon-colored illustrations match the uproarious, tall-tale." Booklist

"This Wild West version of Jack and the Beanstalk is sure to have readers breaking out their tengallon hats and asking for some southwestern fare." Kirkus Reviews

"This imaginative and humorous story and equally humorous and colorful illustrations combine to make this a rollicking, fun read. Recommended." Library Media Connection

Children's Literature - Beverley Fahey
This rollicking interpretation of Jack and the Beanstalk with its Texas setting and plucky heroine named Waynetta is fresh and imaginative. When Waynetta returns home with a handful of worthless corn kernels exchanged for the family's lone long horn, her Ma promptly throws them out the window. The next morning the girl climbs the giant cornstalk that has grown overnight and finds herself on the doorstep of the biggest ranch ever. A giant woman, dressed in finest cowgirl garb, who decides that Waynetta must have come for all the things stolen from the family by her ornery giant of a husband, greets her at the door. Waynetta easily retrieves the tiny long horn that produces golden cow pies, and the lariat that never misses, but the bucket that never runs out of water eludes her. The clever girl returns to the giant's ranch, manages to outwit the giant, grabs the bucket, and hightails it down the cornstalk, where Ma is at the ready with ax in hand. The giant crashes to the ground with such force that he creates a vast crater that the bucket fills with enough water to make a fine lake. With the gold from the magic long horn, Ma and Waynetta buy a whole herd of steer and the giant, whose fall knocked some sense into him, and his wife stay on as hired hands. Ketteman's text is peppered with Texas colloquialisms and it is hard not to affect a drawl when reading it. Her new twist on a traditional favorite will win over new fans. The colorful watercolors fill the pages depicting the hardscrabble ranch and the exaggerated proportions of the giant and his wife perfectly. Oversized furniture and interesting perspectives clearly delineate the size difference between the giant and the sassyWaynetta. Children will delight in repeating the refrain. "Fee, Fie, Foe, fat, I think I smell a cowgirl brat," and the story will have them begging, "read it, again."
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780807586884
  • Publisher: Whitman, Albert & Company
  • Publication date: 7/1/2012
  • Pages: 32
  • Sales rank: 170,545
  • Age range: 4 - 7 Years
  • Product dimensions: 8.30 (w) x 10.50 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Meet the Author


Helen Ketteman is the author of more than twenty picture books, including Senorita Gordita, Armadilly Chili, and The Three Little Gators, a 2010 Wanda Gág Award Honor Book. A longtme resident of Texas, she now lives in Sanibel, Florida.

Diane Greenseid has illustrated many books for children, including Teeny Weeny Bop by Margaret Read MacDonald. She lives in Venice, California.

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