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Goldie Locks Has Chicken Pox

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GOLDIE LOCKS HAS CHICKEN POX is a delightful book! The fast moving rhyming text is enhanced by Hanako Wakiyama's amusing and detailed illustrations. My 6 year old son laughed aloud as he read it!

As a clinical psychologist and a mother of two, I am always looking for books which take common childhood experiences and infuse them with humor, compassion and imagination. Dealey and Wakiyama succeed in a way that will make you want to read about Goldie and her storybook friends again and again.

I just had to get this book, and I'll figure out what child to give it to later. I want to enjoy it myself first! The story idea is fun, and I can't stop looking at the marvelous 50's retro illustrations.

The story is told in clever unsentimental rhyme and includes characters from other fairy tales. My favorite aspect of this book is the 1950's retro illustrations which are a pleasant departure from the plethora of realism in today's children's illustrations. Part of enjoying children's literature includes the transportation into a fantasy world and celebrating imagination. This book has roots of 1950's in the furniture, clothing, and style of drawings, but the context of the drawings to the story is the most creative and progressive approach to a picture book that I've seen in a while.

I was hooked from the minute I read the title. Goldie's storybook friends (the three bears, Henny Penny, Little Bo Peep and more) ask how she is doing and her annoying little brother tries to connect the dots. It?s a truly creative tale that both my daughters (ages 2 and 4) absolutely love. I am looking forward to reading more stories from this author.

Kids ages 3-7 will find this a different picturebook story revolving around poor Goldie Locks and her chicken pox experience. Hanako Wakiyama illustrates a story which is told using a variety of rhyme bases from famous rhymes ("Jack, be nimble! Jack, be quick! Come and see! My sister's sick!"). A refreshingly different approach to childhood illness.

We were given this book when one child got chicken pox...and appreciated it all over again when her sister came down w/ it 21 days later!

This is a fun romp of a story, which the Kindergarten/1st grade set particularly enjoy because it has so many familiar pieces. They love recognizing both the skewed bits of other fairy tales and the whole chicken pox process.

I remember when I got the chicken pox and my brother's teased me just like Goldie's brother teases her. I enjoyed how Erin Dealey incorporated old nursery rhyme characters in the story. When I read about Jack be Nimble it made me think back to that nursery rhyme, as well as many others. I truly enjoyed reading Goldie Locks has Chicken Pox and I reccomended it to my Children's Literature class. Dealey and Wakiyama did a wonderful job!

Poor Goldie Locks. She has chicken pox.

We rhyme our way through the large cast of Mother Goose figures and one annoying baby brother (who, after being so annoying to his sister, including playing connect-the-dots on her face, eventually gets sick himself, a just desert if I ever saw one!)

Cute, retro illustrations and nice rhymes. I'm not as thrilled with the book as my nieces are, but they like it enough to justify giving it the fourth star.

By far the favorite book of my 7 and 4 yr. olds! They both can recite every single word. Buy this book, you won't be disappointed!

I have to give this book 5 stars in every way! The illustrations featuring a mid-century modern house are to die for and the storyline is funny and it rhymes. Kids seem to gravitate toward this book, even if they don't know what Chicken Pox are anymore! =)