Fearless Jack

Rating:
Summary: Mountain Storytelling at its Best
Review: Award-winning illustrator and children's book writer Paul Brett Johnson interprets this 600-year-old Jack tale with an Eastern Kentucky twist. The boy-hero and his dog whack a swarm of yellow jackets, capture a wild boar, tangle with a grizzly bear, and trap a unicorn. Johnson's text is a delightful and accessible recreation of mountain speech, and his energetic paintings are richly detailed and laugh-out-loud funny....