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PreS-Gr 2 A humorous and fresh retelling of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" set in the West. The bears live in "a neat and tidy cabin in the woods" and wear cowboy boots, leather vests, and neckerchiefs. When they leave for a morning walk, Dusty Locks, a little girl who "hadn't had a bath for a month of Sundays," arrives at their home. She is so hungry she "could eat a saddle blanket." She tries the big grizzly...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Here is Goldilocks not exactly fractured (no parody marks the story) and not exactly retold (no sources give a version to retell) but rather relocated to the American West. This blonde is as unkempt as she is ill mannered: "She hadn't had a bath in a month of Sundays, so everybody called her Dusty Locks." The stylized costumes (reminiscent of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans's getups) and geographically generated idiom ("I'm...Log In or Sign Up to Read More