Friday, July 26, 2013

Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs - Mo Willems

Illustrated by Mo Willems
Balzer & Bray/Harper Collins, 2012
HC $17.99
Ellsworth Library
32pages
Goodreads rating: 4.20
My rating: 4
Endpapers: X's through other possible titles:  Goldilocks and the Three Hippos, Goldilocks and the Three Cyclops, Goldilocks adn the Three Germans, etc. (all different and very funny)
Title Page: Big block letters, colored in  - left page has a wide-eyed Goldilocks peering around a corner
Illustrations - Simple, clean and clear, no white (color washes instead), humorous

1st line: "Once upon a time, there were three Dinosaurs:  Papa Dinosaur, Mama Dinosaur, an some other Dinosaur who happened to be visiting from Norway."

My comments:  FUNNY!  Clever!  A great "fractured" fairy tale.  Lots of sarcasm and joking.  Ella (6 yrs old) didn't get some of it until I explained it to her, but she understood more and more after that and enjoyed the story immensely.  So did I.

From Goodreads:  One day--for no particular reason--they decided to tidy up their house, make the beds, and prepare pudding of varying temperatures. And then--for no particular reason--they decided to go...someplace else. They were definitely NOT setting a trap for some succulent, unsupervised little girl.
Definitely not! This new take on a fairy-tale classic is so funny and so original--it could only come from the brilliant mind of Mo Willems

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