Customer Reviews

Three Billy Goats (Favourite Tales)

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We read a lot, and now my kindergarten age daughter is reading her own books, and it has become apparent to me that my beginning reader receives greater pleasure from reading rewrites of the old familiar stories than from the newer primers with their `hip', modern plots.

I think it has to do with feeling that she is starting and finishing a *real* story rather than something constructed to cover certain letter combinations.

If your own nascent reader is the same, you might want to take a look at this Ladybird reader: Billy Goats Gruff. It is on Level 2, which means that the print is still large and fairly easy to read, but there is more text per page. In this book there can be as many as four sentences per page. My daughter who reads pretty well for a kindergarten aged child, didn't have any problems except with the joined words such as: middle-sized.

Vocabulary consists of simple words such as: up, on, over, fat, him, big. And harder vocabulary like: middle-sized, Gruff, bridge, and splash. All-in-all though I would say that vocabulary would not be the problem, because the pictures and repetition provide all the clues most children will need to figure out what the words mean.

Four Stars. Satisfying read for newer readers. The pictures are cute, and the story is a classic. Find a sample of text from the book so you can judge for yourself:

Big billy goat Gruff

looks up.

Little billy goat Gruff

and middle-sized

billy goat Gruff

are over the bridge,

he says.

I can go

over the bridge

for some grass.

This book was EXACTLY as pictured and described, thank goodness! I read our copy ragged to my two little ones (25 years ago!), and then a puppy chewed on it some. My daughter just discovered it in a box in her closet, she has saved it all these years. And she cried, because I wouldn't be able to read it to my grandchildren. So now I have a brand new book, exactly like we remember. Bring on the grandkids!