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Goldlilocks And The Three Bears | August 15, 2012

by James Marshall (Dial /Penguin young Readers Group, Jan. 1998)

We all know the drill. One tiny, towheaded tyrant systematically wreaks havoc on the home of a family of bears, leaving a trail of upended porridges, splintered chairs, and lumpy comforters in her wake. Enter James Marshall, and the rote story gets uncommonly funny. “I don’t mind if I do” is the refrain of this Goldilocks as she breezes past one hilarious visual cue after another on her spree, oblivious to the fact that she is, in fact, in a den of bears. A favorite page pictures a smug Goldie in baby bear’s bed, comforter pulled to her chin with those marvelous Marshallian sausage fingers, as crayon-drawn portraits of the furry family look on. This 1989 Caldecott Honor Book gets the art of retelling just right.

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