Ah, the tale of a plucky boy who climbs a plant that reaches the clouds! Storytellers have turned it into an SF novel, a TV miniseries, and a mural, among other things. If you want to adapt this tale then check out the classics:
Jack and the Beanstalk in English Fairy and Folk Tales by E. S. Hartland
Jack and the Beanstalk in English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
Jack and the Beanstalk in What They Say in New England by Clifton Johnson
Jack and the Bean-pole in Tales from Maryland and Pennsylvania by Elsie Clews Parsons
Jack and the Beanstalk in English Fairy Tales by Flora Annie Steel
Jack and the Bean-stalk in Jamaica Anansi Stories by Martha Warren Beckwith
Jack and the Beanstalk in Mountain White Folk-Lore: Tales from the Southern Blue Ridge by Isabel Gordon Carter
Bonus: scholarly writings.
“Jack and the Beanstalk” by Humphrey Humphreys in The Study of Folklore.
“Jack and the Beanstalk” by William Desmonde in The Study of Folklore.
“Jack and the Beanstalk: An American Version” by Martha Wolfenstein in The Study of Folklore.
Jack In Two Worlds: Contemporary North American Tales and Their Tellers by William Bernard McCarthy.
For more information on the ATU acronym mentioned in the title, read this post.
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