Jack and the bean-stalk : English hexameters
Jack and the Bean-stalk, a 1886 English verse retelling of the fairy tale in hexameters by Hallam Tennyson, illustrated by Randolph Caldecott and published in London and New York by Macmillan for young readers. The pen-and-ink sketches show a giant towering over a small landscape, a boy confronting a fleeing giant, and a huge figure stretched across a chair beside a small boy; their loose, quick line and humorous exaggeration of scale suggest economical caricature for playful storytelling.
