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  • Early in her career, Solis-Cohen wrote David the Giant-Killer, and Other Tales of Grandma Lopez (1908), and translated from Hebrew a selection of allegorical tales designed for young people by the Russian Hebraist Judah Steinberg, published under the title The Breakfast of the Birds and Other Stories (1917).

    Emily Solis-Cohen. 2009

  • New Line has bought a pitch from Jack the Giant-Killer writer Darren Lemke that would re-cast the tale of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King as an action movie.

    The Nutcracker, in Action Movie Form: Like a Simpsons Parody Come to Life | /Film 2009

  • I made up stories as a kid, to get myself to sleep, about a hero known as Flash (I was a big fan of those old Flash Gordon serials, you know) or Jack (as in the Giant-Killer).

    Why Do I Infernokrush? Hal Duncan 2005

  • Recommended Reading Jack the Giant-Killer and Drink Down the Moon by Charles de Lint Wonderful urban fantasy novels bringing "Jack" and magic to the str modern Canada.

    Briar Rose Yolen, Jane 1991

  • Of _Jack the Giant-Killer_, in Skinner's _Folk-Lore_, David

    A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready

  • Giant-Killer_, he has shown that it is the same tale as Grimm's _The

    A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready

  • Cinderella, Jack the Giant-Killer_, -- which has been said to be the epitome of the whole life of man -- _Beauty and the Beast_, and a crowd of others.

    A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready

  • Giant-Killer_, designed by Craig, engraved by Lee.

    A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready

  • In Perrault's time, when this influence was beginning to decline, they superseded the English tales, crowding out all but _Jack the Giant-Killer, Tom

    A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready

  • The tales included translations from Perrault, Madame D'Aulnoy, Madame de Beaumont, tales from _The Thousand and One Nights_, and from _Robin Hood_; and the single tales of _Jack the Giant-Killer, Tom Thumb_, and _Jack and the Bean-Stalk_.

    A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready

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