Today’s episode is an audio retelling of a classic English fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk. 

Trouble ensues when Jack, a poor country boy, trades the family cow for a handful of magic beans, which grow into an enormous beanstalk. Jack climbs the beanstalk and finds himself in the castle of an unfriendly giant.

Fun fact: Researchers suggest this story can trace its origins back to a story called The Boy Steals Ogre’s Treasure written nearly 5000 years ago!

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Sound effects were found at freesound.org 

Our intro and outro music is “Helix Nebula” by Anamanaguchi and is licensed under an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States Creative Commons License. 

The background music used during the performance was “Over the Water, Humans Gather” by Doctor Turtle and is licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International Creative Commons License. 

This royalty-free play by Ruth Landowne-Giordano is part of a fantastic collection of plays for kids and teens published by Drama Notebook. This script, and others like it, can be found at www.dramanotebook.com.

A big shout out goes to Ms. Johann, Mrs. Redlin, and Mrs. Ritchie and their amazing third graders at Harrah Elementary for lending their theatrical talents to this episode. 

Join us next time for another episode of If You Give a Principal a Podcast. 

Until then, Be responsible, Be safe and, most of all, Be kind.