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Deep in the Forest (Picture Puffins)

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This retelling of the Goldilocks story is a big hit with my three-year-old. Without words, the illustrations show a little bear's adventures in a little girl's cabin. While she and her parents are out the bear investigates the porridge, the chairs and the beds. The family returns and the drawings of the little girl's indignant reaction to her spilled porridge and broken chair are priceless. The little bear is discovered in the little girl's bed and is chased away, returning to his waiting mother bear. My son loves to narrate the story for me. The illustrations tell the story perfectly and the humor of the role reversal certainly was not lost on him.

This book turns the story of Goldilocks around. A small bear invades Goldilocks house. It is a wordless picture book that can be used to inspire young students in creative writing, or encourage pre-schoolers imagination. The illustrations are delightful.

The illustrations are wonderful. Please know that there are no words in this book. That makes you the storyteller or your child. It's a great way to stoke their imagination when you let them be the "author".

This charming and beautifully illustrated picture book tells a funny story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears--in reverse. In gorgeous illustrations of the early American frontier, a baby cub wanders into a human cabin, where he finds food, chairs, and beds.

The fact that there are no words makes this actually superior--the drawings are already excellent at telling the story.

Great, gorgeous idea.

A curious bear cub leaves his mother to investigate a cabin deep in the forest. He investigates bowls, chairs and beds before falling asleep -- just in time for the family to return from a walk. Beautiful and humorous illustrations are the star of this textless retelling. Our two-and-a-half-year old loves this book -- asking for it several times a day -- participating in the 'reading', laughing, feeling indignant for the little girl and her broken things. This is a charming storybook.

As a Kindergarten taecher, I am contstantly on the look-out for quality children's literature, as well as books with text that is appropriate for beginning and emergent readers. This book ingeniously combines the two. Simple, yet beautiful illustrations tell the story - a most clever rendition of Goldilocks and the Three Bears - without using even a single word.

After finding this book at a local Goodwill store, (truly a diamond in the rough), I immediately went home and scouered the internet, purchasing several more copies for myself, my classroom, and my friends. Quite possibly my favorite "wordless" book. Truly brilliant.

This wordless picture book is a retelling of Goldilocks, from the rather more realistic perspective of a bear cub invading a human cottage.

I love the bear's expression as he finds the chairs are too hard, too soft, and a LOT of fun to rock in - and you can't beat Goldilocks crying at every little thing!

Some people object to wordless picture books on principle, because they are unfamiliar with them. This is what I have to say to that:

Wordless picture books are PERFECT for pre-readers. It gives them the ability to read a book - REALLY own the experience instead of just "playing" as they must do when they can't understand the words - on their own. It gives them practice in putting together stories and working out details from context. And it allows them to be the expert at some activity that is usually restricted to adults and older children in their life - reading a book.

By that same token, they are also ideal for early readers. It's non-threatening, and yet it's still a way to practice following a storyline. Reading is more than just mechanically putting together sounds and reciting them, after all. Many people are impressed by a five year old who can say, word-perfect, some complex piece he or she "reads" from a page, but later they find out that the child has no idea what they just read and wasn't thinking of reading as an exercise in gleaning meaning from text, but merely as reciting memorized sounds and letter combinations. Working out the story for themselves from a book with no words is a wonderful way to practice this sort of "reading for meaning".

But what of the child who stumbles in reading? Well, the child who stumbles when reading but can tell you WHAT they read is light-years ahead of the one who sounds pretty but doesn't grasp the meaning. At any rate, this child is still getting much needed practice in the conventions of reading without the letters to stress and trip them up.

Of course, you don't want the only book in your house to be a wordless picture book, I understand that, because children do need print to practice reading, but a few are a WONDERFUL thing for a child. And who has just one book, anyway?

A lovely book with gorgeous illustration and a delightful twist to prove the axiom that there is always two sides to any story. Try the author's Obadiah series as well.