Ghouldilocks and the Three Ghosts
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
A classic fairy tale is turned on its head when a creepy ghoul and three not-so-scary ghosts replace familiar characters in this funny holiday story.
Ghouldilocks and the Three Ghosts is the Halloween version of a well-known fairy tale. This Ghouldilocks has the same golden curls as the original, but styled with bones and tangles to suit this scary holiday.
Ghouldilocks approaches a haunted mansion and steps inside. There she samples three bowls of ghoulosh, sits on a big chair, a medium chair, and a small chair. Next she tries out three beds--and falls asleep in the smallest one. The ghosts come home and instead of chasing Ghouldilocks away, they all become friends. The pages are sprinkled with speech balloons filled with silly Halloween jokes and puns. Colorful art includes sly details by a talented cartoonist will make readers laugh-out-loud.
This clever retelling of the classic Goldilocks and the Three Bears is perfect for Halloween.
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Sullivan gives the classic fairy tale a ghoulish twist in this punning variation. In the middle of a game of "hide-and-shriek," Ghouldilocks, depicted with chartreuse skin and Medusa-like "ghastly hair," follows a series of eerie sounds to an abandoned house in which a familiar chain of events unfolds. Wordplay provides the well-trod tale with a seasonal punch: the first chair Ghouldilocks sits in feels like a "tombstone" and the next is like "quicksand"; one bowl of ghoulash is "hotter than a werewolf's breath on a summer day," and another is "colder than a vampire's skin on a winter morning." Throughout, frenetic-feeling, queasy-hued digital artwork by Becker provides visual momentum via scenes of the subject wreaking havoc. When the returning spirit family finds the slumbering interloper, the discovery results in a collective fright before humordefuses the situation, propelling the story toward a conclusion that emphasizes that there's nothing frightening about friendship. Ages 4–8.
