And then she tasted the porridge of the Middle Bear and that was too cold for her and she said a bad word about that too. So first she tasted the porridge of the Great, Huge Bear, and that was too hot for her and she said a bad word about that. If she had been a good little old woman she would have waited till the bears came home, and then, perhaps, they would have asked her to breakfast for they were good bears-a little rough or so, as the manner of bears is, but for all that very good-natured and hospitable.īut she was an impudent, bad old woman, and set about helping herself.Ī Child’s Book of Stories by Jessie Willcox Smith So the little old woman opened the door and went in and well pleased she was when she saw the porridge on the table. The door was not fastened, because the bears were good bears, who did nobody any harm, and never suspected that anybody would harm them. She could not have been a good, honest old woman for, first, she looked in at the window, and then she peeped in at the keyhole and, seeing nobody in the house, she lifted the latch. And while they were walking, a little old woman came to the house. One day, after they had made the porridge for their breakfast, and poured it into their porridge-pots, they walked out into the wood while the porridge was cooling, that they might not burn their mouths by beginning too soon to eat it. You can also make a direct donation here.Īn English Fairy Tale from Andrew Lang’s Green Fairy Book Pook Press is sharing this story for World Porridge Day, on Tuesday 10th October. A day to raise funds for the amazing charity Mary’s Meals, to aid starving children in developing countries.įind out more about World Porridge Day, how you can get involved and the fantastic work that Mary’s Meals do to change the lives of hungry children. Instead of a young fair-haired girl at the centre of our story, we see a greedy, meddlesome old woman. This English folktale has been adapted many times over the years but is now most commonly known as Goldilocks and the Three Bears.Īndrew Lang collected this early version of the tale in his Green Fairy Book published in 1892. It was originally written by English poet Robert Southey in 1837. The Story of the Three Bears is one of the world’s best-known fairy tales. In Andrew Lang Fairy Stories, English Fairy Tales, Fortnightly Fairy Tales, Story Time Origins of Fairy Tales from Around the World.I know it's strange to find bears living in a little wooden cottage, but this is a fairy tale, and strange things happen in fairy tales." Frankly, it's a good thing the text has pep because parents are likely to find themselves begged to read this one again and again-and again.Ĭopyright ©2022 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. The dwelling in which Goldilocks finds three steaming bowls of porridge "did not belong to one, two, three people, but surprisingly, if you don't already know it, one, two, three bears," the author tells us: "A large father bear, a middle-sized mother bear, and a small baby bear. GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS BOOK ZIPWriter Lauren Child has added enough zip to the familiar tale to make it a refreshing read-aloud for parents while keeping the rhythm so much adored by generations of children. Inside its red front door, the child discovers a charmingly rustic dollhouse interior with numerous witty references to the "threes" that characterize the story: three bears, three chairs, three beds, but also three umbrellas, three candlesticks and three very small eggs. As the story begins, we see Goldilocks walking through a copse of real trees-saplings, in truth, but immense from her point of view-to a 3-foot-tall cottage made of twigs and roofed with grassy turf. Jenkins and photographed by Polly Borland. Does the world really need yet another adaptation of the bedtime chestnut "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"? On the basis of this entrancing creative collaboration for children ages 3-9, the answer is: Yes, actually, it does! Goldilocks in this case is a beautiful three-dimensional doll posed in an exquisitely realized miniature world devised by set creator Emily L.
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