My very favorite page was the second to last page, and I might just add it to my quotes: [ “If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”' The front and back inside covers are full of wonderfully amusing alternate titles. The reader/listener is in on all the jokes, more so than anyone else. Delightful and so entertaining, and I was a bit deliciously scared, or would have been when younger. So to check if we have the book in-stock before you place your order, contact us at 6702 2452 or drop us an email at Level: 5+ *Despite our best efforts to predict the demand for books, the magical spells we use sometimes fail us. This new take on a fairy-tale classic is so funny and so original-it could only come from the brilliant mind of Mo Willems.

They were definitely NOT setting a trap for some succulent, unsupervised little girl. And then- for no particular reason -they decided to go.someplace else. One day- for no particular reason -they decided to tidy up their house, make the beds, and prepare pudding of varying temperatures. and a Dinosaur who happened to be visiting from Norway. (Sept.Once upon a time, there were three hungry Dinosaurs: Papa Dinosaur, Mama Dinosaur. With a sense of irony (and humor) as sharp as this dinosaur trio’s talons, Willems’s retelling is a sure bet for audiences who have moved beyond more gently witty fare. They are “definitely not hiding in the woods,” peeking fiendishly from the treetops, as “a poorly supervised little girl named Goldilocks came traipsing along.” Goldilocks doesn’t hesitate to enter the dinos’ house or stick her whole head in their food (“who cares about temperature when you’ve got a big bowl of chocolate pudding? Not her”), and she wises up just in time to give herself, if not the dinosaurs, a happy ending. rexes and smaller brown dino lick their lips and make comments suggestive of a plot (“I sure hope no innocent little succulent child happens by our unlocked home”), while the mock-naïve narration declares their innocence. Having cooked up three bowls of chocolate pudding andĪrranged their house “just so,” the two olive-green T. In this sly sendup, Goldilocks (who could be a cousin of Knuffle Bunny’s Trixie) ventures into the home of three diabolical dinosaurs.

Goldilocks and the dinosaurs