Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Author/Illustrator: James Marshall 

Genre: Traditional Literature

Grade level: K-3

Award: Caldecott Honor Medal

This is the re-telling of the traditional story of goldilocks. Goldilocks is sent on an errand by her mother and her mother specifically tells her to not take the shortcut. She decides to not follow her mothers orders and takes the shortcut and she stumbles across a house that she just decides to go inside. She see three bowls of porridge and takes a sip from each bowl since one was too hot one was too cold and the last one was just right. She did the same thing with the rocking chairs and ended up breaking one of the rocking chairs that was just right. After all this she goes and does the same thing with the beds and ends up falling asleep. Three bears come home and see that their porridge has been eaten and their chairs have been sat in and broken. Papa bears voice woke Goldilocks up and she ran away never to be seen again. 

This book is a good book to teach young children about manners. This teaches that we should respect other people's belongings and we should always ask before using anything that is not ours. It can also be used as a prompt for a journal to help students brain storm a time where they did not use their manners. 

The illustrations are fun colorful cartoon characters. The expressions of the characters reveal their true characters and add to the descriptions given of exactly what it going on in the story.