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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