Jack and the Wonder Beans

James Still. University Press of Kentucky, $16.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-8131-1735-5

""Fee, fie, chew tobacco,/ I smell the toes of a tadwhacker,"" snorts the giant in the newly reissued Jack and the Wonder Beans by James Still, with two-color illustrations by Margot Tomes. First published in 1977, this down-home retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk is set in Appalachia. (Univ. Press of Kentucky, $14.95 ISBN 0-8131-1735-6 Mar.)

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