When his seven years’ wages in gold proves too heavy to carry, Jack trades it in for one thing after another until he arrives home empty-handed but convinced he is a lucky man.

• ISBN: 9780887082498
• Author: Brothers Grimm
• Illustrator: Tharlet, Eve
• Published: 1992 , Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Themes: Fools, Gold, trading
• Descriptors: Europe, Folklore and Fairy Tales, Germany, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9)
• No. of pages: 32