![]() Each book listed has a link to a review, information about that book, and resources for activities. This is a wonderful resource if you are wondering what books to give as gifts, needing material for a lesson, or just looking for a great book to read. ![]() Susanna Leonard Hill features Perfect Picture Book Friday on her blog. It drew me to a chair where I sat and read it two more times and then hugged it…I’m not kidding! It’s quirky and charming and you will love the way Leigh Hodgkinson gives you a completely new happy ending. The illustrations are a mixed-media, retro style and make the story just that much more fun! I read this book in a bookstore. The humor will not be lost on kids or adults. This is done “just right.” I loved this new twist on Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Why I Like This Book: Fractured fairy tales rank high on my list. But it would be extremely helpful when covering fractured fairy tales with children.Ĭollage Goldilocks or Bear or Both- HERE on Leigh Hodgkinson’s blog. I found a fractured fairy tale book list HERE, but it isn’t completely updated because Goldilocks and Just One Bear isn’t one it. This very old nursery tale is one of the most popular stories in the English language. Read, Write, Think has this great tool for writing fractured fairy tales, HERE. 'Goldilocks and the three bears' is a family-friendly variation of an old tale in which a woman enter the house of three bears, eats their food, sits on their chair, and sleeps in their bed. Resources: Writing activity for grades 3-8 is found HERE. After the somebody’s been routine, the mother turns out to be Goldilocks, now grown up, and the bear is the former Baby Bear. The text and art are so adorable that you will run straight to the bookstore and buy this book!!!! Leigh Hodgkinson’s Goldilocks and Just the One Bear gives a novel twist to a familiar fairy tale as a lost bear causes mayhem in a city apartment, before the (human) family comes home. Want to have a look inside? You must!!! Go HERE to Nosy Crow and see the first few pages. Too much loud honking and beeping and not nearly enough owl hooting. ![]() Too many bright lights and not enough twigs. Opening: Once upon a time, there was this bear. One minute he was lolloping around, all happy-go-lucky…The next minute he hadn’t one crumb-of-a-clue where he was.He was one COMPLETELY lost bear. The bear didn’t much like this place. Will he find the city too noisy? Too quiet? Or just right? And what are the chances of him bumping in to someone who remembers exactly how he likes his porridge? One day, Little Bear wanders out of the woods and finds himself lost in the Big City. Synopsis: (From Goodreads) In this award-winning authorillustrator’s witty sequel to the traditional Goldilocks story, Little Bear is all grown up and Goldilocks is a distant memory. Publisher: Candlewick Press (Nosy Crow) 2012 Written and Illustrated by Leigh Hodgkinson Last week I fell completely, totally, helplessly in love…
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