The moral of the story for Goldilocks is: If you find yourself in the wrong story, leave.Īnd for the dinosaurs? Lock the back door! (I love the disapproving look Mama Dinosaur is giving the two others. The dinosaurs return from their walk and they find that Goldilocks has dashed out the back door. Goldilocks puts the pieces together at the last possible moment and escapes. And the sign on the wall suggests that perhaps the home does not belong to bears. Unlike the original, in this book she realizes something: the furniture in the house is gigantic. Or a squirrel.”Īs in the original, Goldilocks ends up in the bedroom. Like when Mama Dino yells loudly and then Mo suggests “But that could have been a rock falling. Throughout the story, there are hilarious side notes about the dinosaurs’ exclamations as they’re supposed to be hidden.The whole sequence with the chairs is really well written.Why? Because dinos love delicious chocolate-filled-little-girl-bonbons. The dinosaurs purposely went for a walk and left their pudding in the kitchen with a handily-placed ladder, so any small wandering children might climb up and help themselves.And instead of breaking Baby Bear’s chair, Goldilocks just refuses to climb up the insanely high dino chairs. Next, instead of porridge, there’s chocolate pudding. First, instead of bears, there are dinosaurs. Personal favourites include: Goldilocks and the Three Rocket Scientists, Goldilocks and the Three Foot-Long Hoagies and Goldilocks and the Three Major Networks.Īnyway, the story is based on the original, of course, but it’s also a bit different.
On the inside back of the cover and first page (and on the back of the last page and inside back cover), there are other ‘possible’ titles for the book, all crossed out. In no universe can I make a dinosaur look that devious.Īside from the fabulous pictures, the story is laugh-out-loud funny. His characters aren’t overly complicated, in terms of “could I draw something that looks approximately like that dinosaur? Yes!” but the expressiveness is off the charts. The thing Mo Willems does best, IMHO, is expressions.
His work is exceptional and he understands what kids find funny in a way very few others do. Now, you’re all well aware of my incredible admiration/fandom when it comes to Mr. Thankfully, my kiddos have Mo Willems’ Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs to entertain them.
Like, picture your uncle who doesn’t really like children telling you a story just to get it over with. It was the art that won my little heart (it was so chunky and cute), but the story was exceptionally lacklustre. When I was three, my grandma bought me a book called “Goldilocks.” It was the classic tale, but with TOTALLY late-seventies-early-eighties-style art. Published: Balzer & Bray (HarperCollins), 2012 It features a new take on an age-old classic that will ensure lots of giggles and lots of re-readings - a perfect go-to bedtime story.Title: Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs Let's be clear, they were definitely not setting up a trap for some succulent, poorly supervised little girl called Goldilocks who may wander by.ahem. One day, purely on a whim, they decided to tidy up their house nice and neat, make their beds up all cosy and comfortable, prepare delicious hot chocolate pudding of varying temperatures, place their chairs just so, and go.Someplace else. Once upon a time, there were three hungry dinosaurs: Papa Dinosaur, Mama Dinosaur and.a Dinosaur who happened to be visiting from Norway. Have you ever heard the story of Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs? Yes, you heard right - Dinosaurs. This is a hugely entertaining and riotous re-telling of a classic fairytale from one of the most original and funny voices in children's books today.
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