BOOKS
Created: 14th August, 2015

Goldilocks and Just the One Bear

Author: Leigh Hodgkinson
Illustrator: Leigh Hodgkinson
Publisher: Nosy Crow

A solitary bear stumbles into the city and is as lost as a little girl might be in the woods. He enters a flat in a tower block where he finds food that’s just right after tasting some that’s all wrong, breaks a bean bag after trying some less pleasant places to sit and falls asleep in a comfy bed. When the family finally return the bear and the mummy person feel that the situation and each other seem somehow familiar...

In addition to exploring other variants of the traditional tale, it would be interesting to look at this picture book alongside those of Lauren Child which have fairy tale themes and a similar collage style of illustration, e.g Beware of the Storybook Wolves.

See also:

Goldilocks (A Hashtag CautionaryTale) by Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross (9781783448784), Andersen Press £6.99

Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Kate Clynes and Louise Daykin. MantraLingua £9.50. Available in many dual language editions - see www.mantralingua.com for further details.