Anxious to make good, Jack sells his C.O.W. (Computer of Wonder) for a handful of magic beans and a mysterious book that records ... Jack climbs the magic beanstalk to recover the fabled Harp ...

When he goes over to the window Jack sees an enormous plant, reaching up into the sky - the beanstalk! Jack is delighted that the old man really had been telling the truth after all - and now Jack ...

Jack lives in a small village with his Ma. They are very poor and hungry but when they look in the kitchen cupboards they can only find mouldy cheese, a rotten apple core and a pair of smelly socks.