Customer Reviews

The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Easy-To-Read Folktale)

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2 star:		(3)
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This is not the best version available of this fairytale...Stephen Carpenter's is much better. In this version, the illustration and text don't even match. The troll is described as having a nose as long as a poker and eyes as big as saucers...but the troll in the pictures has a bulbous nose and unremarkable eyes. I don't know if it's an exact translation from Norwegian, but the grammar is occasionally ackward. The metaphors in the speech given by the biggest Billy Goat to the troll have to be explained to a younger audience...which isn't bad in itself but contributes to the uneven flow in the text. The pictures are good, too bad the writing isn't.

I am a preschool teacher for three year olds and they all love this book. They ask me to read it over and over again. They love the colorful drawings and the silly voices I add to the characters.

This book has captured my two year old's imagination. The simple text and entertaining drawings have him enthralled. He's read it so many times he now reads it to me.

This story really doesn't have a big moral point. But it does show the difference between how a child, adolescent and an adult handle a situation. The first goat who is the child wants the grass like he wants candy and he'll even sacrifice his brother to get just like a child in the real life would do. The second goat who is the adolescent is bigger but steal doesn't know how to deal with issues and still does the same thing he would have done if he was a child. The third goat who is the adult knows how to deal with problems he faces them and he's not afraid of them. Overall this story is good story and does have point if you search for it.

When I was younger I would read this book every night before going to bed. I now have a three-year-old sister that I thought would appreciate the story as much as I did. She loved it, this book is a classic through and through.

I read this to my son when he was 2 and 3 and 4 then he was reading the book to me. We loved it, he loved reading it as much as I loved reading it to him. His favorite parts are making the "trip trap" stomps we had a lot of fun! It encouraged him to want to read more book =)

I was looking for a few classic titles for my 3 year old son. This came up as a suggestion. I saw many positive reviews so I added it to my cart. I just finished reading it to my son for the first time and I am very unhappy with the story. As I read the story aloud to my son I had to edit the lines like "I've got two spears, and I'll poke your eyeballs out you ears". Really? this is a good line to put in a child's story? I must say the pictures are beautifully drawn so I will let my son look at the pictures and make up his own story. There are better versions of this story out there.

I loved this story as a child, and the grandkids (3 and 5) think it's pretty cool, too.

This is a colorfully illustrated book and with a very simply story. It is fun to use different voices for each of the goats.

Was looking for this little book and knew Amazon would have it. As always, pleased with the product and the service.