Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Retold and illustrated by Jan Brett 

Grades PreK-1

Genre: Folklore/traditional literature

Do you have a love for the nursery tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears? Jan Brett skillfully retells this famous tale and beautifully illustrates it. This retelling of  Goldilocks and the Three Bears will be a whole new experience for you! 

     Goldilocks is venturing through the forest, when she finds a quaint little cottage tucked away in the safety of the forest. She decides to enter the cottage. The residents are currently gone. Goldilocks quickly makes her self feel at home. She samples all the porridge that is on the counter. Eventually she finds a bowl of porridge that she is satisfied with and eats the whole thing. She then sits in every chair until she finds he perfect one. This chair cannot hold her weight and it breaks into many pieces. Goldilocks is tired she ventures into the stranger's bedrooms. The first two beds aren't comfortable at all but the last bed is just right. The residents of the cottage are a family of three bears. They come home to find that someone has been in their house while they were away. They all are very upset. The smallest bear finds Goldilocks in his bed. She wakes up startled to find three bears staring down at her. She quickly jumps out of bed and jumps out of the window. Goldilocks is never seen again by the three bears. 

     Jan Brett will have the reader mesmerized by her beautiful illustrations. All of the pictures are so detailed that it will captivate the reader in the world of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The pages have a boarder around them and in the boarder it gives the reader a hint about what will happen next in the story. By using the boarders the reader will use inferential comprehension to predict what will happen next. The language used in this story is very easy to read and comprehend. This would be the perfect book to read aloud and discuss in a kindergarten or first grade classroom. The teacher can have a discussion with the students about how it is wrong to use other people's things without their permission. 

    The setting of this book takes place in a beautiful forest that has a cozy cottage. The character Goldilocks represents a curious young girl that doesn't think about the consequences of her actions. The characters in this book are three bears that have human characteristics. The big bear represents danger. There is also a medium and small sized bear that become very upset because of Goldilocks' actions. The three bears have everything they need in their cottage and live happily until Goldilocks appears. The conflict in this story is someone has been in the bears house and has used their things. The solution to the conflict is the bears find Goldilocks and she leaves and never returns. The theme of this story is that your actions have consequences. Another theme of this story is to never use someones things without asking them first. Goldilocks quickly jumps out of the window to avoid the consequences of her actions. 

MA Frameworks PreK & Grade 1 

Key Ideas and Details

1.     Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

2.     Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

3.    Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.