![]() The silly twist is that she eats the things she finds … including the littlest bear’s bowl and spoon, his chair, and his bed (plus the blanket, two pillows, and a pair of pajamas). Goatilocks is a little kid (get it? ha ha) who lives down the road from a family of bears. This book gets the prize for funniest story and cutest illustrations. ![]() Goatilocks and the Three Bears, by Erica S. When the bears discover her, she lets out a scream (a perfect high C!) and becomes the new lead singer. She breaks the microphone, finds the perfect headset, and falls asleep (drooling) on the keyboard. Meanwhile, Goldilocks discovers their empty house. They audition everyone (including the three little pigs and Little Red Riding Hood), but no one has the right pitch. In this modern version, the Three Bears are looking for a lead singer for their rock band. Goldi Rocks and the Three Bears, by Corey Rosen Schwartz and Beth Coulton Challenge your students to help you write the text! I like the setting (the American frontier days) and the expressive illustrations. This is a wordless picture book in which a baby bear stumbles upon a log cabin. Instead of running out of the house, Goldilocks makes the beds, mends the chair, and offers her blueberries for a batch of blueberry muffins. The story continues in the traditional way until the bears return home. “Forgetting her manners,” she walks right in. ![]() While picking blueberries, Goldilocks stumbles on the three bears’ home. This is a beautiful book with a fresh ending to the traditional story. While the story didn’t especially grab us, it’s a fun new take. Instead, the bears live in a dirty cabin (with leaves and fish bones on the floor), eat porridge filled with beetles and bark, and sleep in beds made of leaves, pine needles, and bird feathers. When Goldilocks finds the bears’ home, there’s no tidy cottage. If you’d like a new perspective on the traditional story, this is a good one to check out. The 3 Bears and Goldilocks, by Margaret Willey Today’s list is a fun one … Goldilocks and the Three Bears! Fun versions of Goldilocks & the Three Bears We’ve shared a variety of collections featuring familiar tales in our book lists. She has been published around the world and in numerous languages.It’s so much fun to explore different versions of familiar tales! They’re also great for building the skills of comparing/contrasting. * Dedicated FaceBook page for the Crandma Chatterbox ebooks is HERE.īarbara Hayes has been a best selling author of children’s books and comics for more than 40 years. So, are you ready for a story? Good, then I will begin. Increase the type size on your tablet or other device and you can read along with your children. When your children get a little bit older and start to learn to read you will find that the vocabulary contains words that they will be learning. The vocabularly and grammar in these stories is specially adapted to be suitable to younger children. Grandma Chatterbox just loves the old stories, and simply adores telling them to young children. Goldilocks was originally an English folk tale, first written down in 1837. After all it is part of every child’s education to know all the traditional tales. So now Grandma Chatterbox is going to tell you Fairy Stories as close to the oldest versions that she can get. So Grandma Chatterbox when she was younger (which was a long time ago) went round and about and over the hills and far away searching for the oldest versions of Fairy Tales which she could find. They probably started before many people could read or write.Īnyway they have been told and retold and everyone who tells them alters them a little bit to suit themselves or to please the people listening. No one really knows when they started or who first wrote them - or told them I expect. What was she doing in the woods in the first place, and what did she do after she left the Three Bears? The story as we usually hear it today is a very much shortened version of the original.įairy Stories have been told for hundreds and hundreds of years. We are all familiar with Goldilocks, of course, but there is a lot more to her than a bowl of porridge and a broken bed. A retelling of the classic fairy tale for 21st century youngsters by a master storyteller.
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