Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Brief Description: Lost in the woods, a tired and hungry girl finds the house of the three bears where she helps herself to food and goes to sleep. Biographical Note: With over thirty four million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation's foremost author illustrators of children's books. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts. As a child, Jan Brett decided to be an illustrator and spent many hours reading and drawing. She says, "I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books. Now I try to recreate that feeling of believing that the imaginary place I'm drawing really exists. The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real."As a student at the Boston Museum School, she spent hours in the Museum of Fine Arts. "It was overwhelming to see the room-size landscapes and towering stone sculptures, and then moments later to refocus on delicately embroidered kimonos and ancient porcelain," she says. "I'm delighted and surprised when fragments of these beautiful images come back to me in my painting."Travel is also a constant inspiration. Together with her husband, Joe Hearne, who is a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Jan visits many different countries where she researches the architecture and costumes that appear in her work. "From cave paintings to Norwegian sleighs, to Japanese gardens, I study the traditions of the many countries I visit and use them as a starting point for my children's books."Brief Description: Originally published: New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, c1987. Brief Description: "The text for this edition has been adapted from The green fairy book, edited by Andrew Lang"--T.p. verso. Publisher Marketing: Jan Brett's richly illustrated take on a classic tale--it's "just"right! Everybody loves the story of the curious little girl named Goldilocks, who made herself quite at home in the house of the three bears. Jan Brett's lavish illustrations for this classic tale, full of details and surprises, gives this edition a special flair. Children will marvel at the enchanted world created herein. Review Citations:

Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/1991 pg. 84 (EAN 9780399220043, Hardcover)

Booklist 03/01/1992 pg. 1289 (EAN 9780399220043, Hardcover)

Publishers Weekly 05/18/1990 (EAN 9780399220043, Hardcover)

Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/1991 pg. 84 (EAN 9780396089254, Mass Market Paperbound)

Booklist 03/01/1992 pg. 1289 (EAN 9780396089254, Mass Market Paperbound)

Publishers Weekly 10/30/1987 (EAN 9780396089254, Mass Market Paperbound)

School Library Journal 12/01/1987 (EAN 9780396089254, Mass Market Paperbound)

Contributor Bio:  Brett, Jan With more than thirty million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation s foremost author/illustrators of children s books. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.