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Summary
The Oso family is going out for a stroll, and Rubia has her eye on their empty casita . A nice bowl of sopa , a comfortable chair, a perfecta little bed Who wouldn't want to open la puerta and come in? This is the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears , retold in a musical combination of English and Spanish, illustrated with great humor and heart by a Caldecott Honor-winning artist, and featuring a surprise ending that's downright fabuloso . Just right for bilingual families, new Spanish speakers, and anyone who likes a bueno twist on a classic.
Author Notes
Susan Middleton Elya is the author of 29 picture books, including the award-winning titles of Home at Last , Little Roja Riding Hood , La Princesa and the Pea , and La Madre Goose. She also wrote the Say Hola to Spanish series and the Eight Animals series, plus many more. She lives in Northern CA with her daughter, three dogs, and a bunch of books.
Melissa Sweet is a New York Times bestselling author and has illustrated nearly 100 children's books. Her work ranges from board books to picture books and nonfiction titles and her collages and paintings have appeared in the New York Times, Martha Stewart Living, and for eeBoo Toys. She has received numerous awards including the Sibert Medal, NCTE's Orbis Pictus Award, as well as two Caldecott Honor awards: A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, and The Right Word: Roget and his Thesaurus, both by Jen Bryant. Her newest book is How to Read a Book by Kwame Alexander. Melissa lives with her husband and dogs in Portland, Maine.
Reviews (5)
School Library Journal Review
Here is another Latino version of a familiar tale told with a rhyming text, liberally peppered with Spanish words. In this case Rubia ("blond girl" in Spanish) visits the house of the three bears, and all goes as expected until the end. Instead of just running away, the story continues with Rubia making soup for the bears and delivering it their house. She even patches up baby bear's chair and plays with him. The tale ends with a variation on the typical Latino welcome "Mi casa es su casa," or "My house is your house." Like all of the books with rhyming texts mentioned here, this is a great read-aloud. Children will love the rhythm and sound of the words, including the ones in Spanish. (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Elya's verse doesn't miss a beat as she delivers a playful slang- and Spanish-inflected retelling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. While the bears are out for a pre-dinner walk, Little Miss Rubia makes herself at home: "She opened la puerta and saw the fine food./ Sopa!' she said. I am so in the mood!' " Rubia escapes when the bears return home, but makes amends for her bad behavior, leading Papa to tell her, "Our house es tu casa." With highlights of bright magenta, green, and orange, Sweet's mixed-media artwork amplifies the characters' delight, anger, and guilt, and Elya's pitch-perfect verse will have readers clamoring for seconds. Ages 3-7. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Horn Book Review
This "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" retelling includes a revamped happy ending in which Rubia brings food to the bears and helps repair Bebi Bear's chair. The jolly text, which includes a smattering of Spanish words, occasionally strains for meaning or rhyme. Sweet's watercolor and mixed-media illustrations showing the Bears' comfy home are amusing. Glos. Copyright 2010 of The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
The perennially popular "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" assumes a Spanish accent in this contemporary retelling. Framed in clever rhyming text, the familiar classic introduces Spanish words to change the flavor of the tale and humorously teach young readers basic Spanish vocabulary. In this version, the three osos live by themselves and decide to take a stroll before dinner. While the osos are out, Rubia with curls of oro boldly trespasses into their casita, discovers their platos of sopa, finishes off bebe's sopa, breaks bebe's silla and falls asleep in bebe's cama until the three osos return and chase her away. However, unlike the original Goldilocks, Rubia makes amends by taking homemade sopa to the osos along with a heartfelt lo siento. Pencil, watercolor and collage illustrations are packed with Southwest detail and rendered in fiesta colors, adding Latin flair, while the overtly comic depiction of the three osos and Rubia in her red cowgirl boots contributes to the lighthearted humor. All pedagogy should be this palatable. (glossary) (Picture book. 3-7)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
It's hard to imagine that there could be a fresh take on the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, but here it is. Written in English and sprinkled with Spanish words that can be easily interpreted (a glossary with pronunciation is included), this is traditional to a point the soup is eaten, the chair is ruined, the beds are slept in with many of the expected humorous touches. However, this Rubia is remorseful, returning to the casita de los osos after her great escape with sopa in hand (and some glue for those chairs). Sweet's imaginative, colorful illustrations featuring a spunky heroine ( daintily frocked with red cowboy boots), rotund bears, and their appealingly appointed cottage, add a great deal to the book's charm and sparkle, and place it on par with other good retellings, including Dusty Locks and the Three Bears by Susan Lowell (2001) and Goldilocks Returns by Lisa Campbell Ernst (2000).--Enos, Randall Copyright 2010 Booklist