Goldilocks eats the porridge of little wee bear, she keeps wandering around the house and sits on every chair till the little wee bear chair was comfortable for her but she broke it, she headed to all 3 different sized beds she chose to lay on the little wee bear bed. The three bears had gone out for a walk into the woods while their porridge cooled down, each of the bears had their own size bowl, chair, and bed. Goldilocks and the three bears is about a little girl named goldilocks who is very curious and goes into a house of a family of three bears, a huge bear, a middle size bear and a little wee bear. I think the Jim Aylesworth and Barbara McClintock version is still my favorite, but this edition is also worth a look - particularly for Jan Brett fans! I was a little distracted by the fact that she referred to the bears as "the great, huge bear," "the middle-sized bear," and "the little, small, wee bear" throughout, rather than as Papa, Mama and Baby Bear, but I suspect that is owing to the fact that her adaptation is taken from Andrew Lang's The Green Fairy Book.Īll in all, an engaging retelling of this traditional tale. I also appreciated the folk costumes and motifs - which looked somewhat German to me - that Brett included.
Although human figures and faces aren't always her strength, I thought her (very) fair Goldilocks was well done, if a little stiff. One of four versions of this tale that I have read in the past year - the other three being done by Lauren Child, Ruth Sanderson, and Jim Aylesworth and Barbara McClintock - this picture-book retelling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears has Jan Brett's signature illustrations, rich in color and detail, with a secondary visual narrative occurring in the decorative borders.īrett is a master at animal characterization, and I really enjoyed her depiction of the three bears, whose facial expressions were often very droll. Any way the story is told, this is an edition of the story worth seeing and checking out. One can see it that way from the girls perspective. Not too big, not too small, but just right. It could also be a story about the middle way. Some homes in this country, she would be shot on sight for that behavior as an intruder. Someone breaks into your home, eats your food, destroys your harmony and safety, as well as furniture and is simply asleep in your bedroom, like the world is hers. This might be a story in the lesson of forgiveness. I am simply blown away by the beauty in each page. It reminds me of being out west and seeing all the woodcarving artwork. OH my Word! You must check out how detailed she can be and how she draws furniture that looks like wood carving.
That made me laugh, but Jan tells the story traditionally. I like the story someone told where they ate the girl. The impertinent little girl breaks and enters and the bears are very patient. The story is the story we have heard a million times over. from Wow, Jan Brett has outdone herself in this book with the artwork. "From cave paintings to Norwegian sleighs, to Japanese gardens, I study the traditions of the many countries I visit and use them as a starting point for my children's books." Together with her husband, Joe Hearne, who is a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Jan visits many different countries where she researches the architecture and costumes that appear in her work. "I'm delighted and surprised when fragments of these beautiful images come back to me in my painting." "It was overwhelming to see the room-size landscapes and towering stone sculptures, and then moments later to refocus on delicately embroidered kimonos and ancient porcelain," she says.
The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real."Īs a student at the Boston Museum School, she spent hours in the Museum of Fine Arts. Now I try to recreate that feeling of believing that the imaginary place I'm drawing really exists. She says, "I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.Īs a child, Jan Brett decided to be an illustrator and spent many hours reading and drawing. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. With over thirty three million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation's foremost author illustrators of children's books.
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