Jack and the Beanstalk

What happens when a boy trades his family's only possession--a cow named Milky White--for a handful of magic beans? If the boy's name is Jack, quite a lot happens. Jack's mother becomes furious, those magic beans grow into a beanstalk that reaches all the way to the sky, and he meets, would you believe, a hungry giant!

Jack and the Beanstalk is an English folktale. The tale is closely associated with the tale of Jack the Giant-killer, and is known under a number of versions.