Goldie and the Three Bears - Hardcover

Stanley, Diane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060000082 ISBN 13: 9780060000080

Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books, 2003

Synopsis

Discouraged over not being able to find the perfect friend and playmate, Goldie’s dreams are magically fulfilled after she gets off at the wrong bus stop and happens upon the special resident in a cottage in the wood.

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Review:

"Fresh and funny.Stanley's art, so sophisticated in her biographies, is delightfully childlike here, with lots of fun in every scene." -- ALA Booklist

"A charming story.goes beyond clever to also have real substance. A 24-carat selection." -- School Library Journal (Starred review)

"Upbeat.Endearing.Fresh and funny." -- Publishers Weekly

"A charming story...goes beyond clever to also have real substance. A 24-carat selection."--School Library Journal (Starred review)

"Upbeat...Endearing...Fresh and funny."--Publishers Weekly

"Reads like Charlotte Zolotow or Arnold Lobel of yore."--Horn Book Magazine

"Fresh and funny...Stanley's art, so sophisticated in her biographies, is delightfully childlike here, with lots of fun in every scene."--ALA Booklist

Reads like Charlotte Zolotow or Arnold Lobel of yore. --Horn Book Magazine"

Upbeat Endearing Fresh and funny. --Publishers Weekly"

Fresh and funny Stanley s art, so sophisticated in her biographies, is delightfully childlike here, with lots of fun in every scene. --ALA Booklist"

About the Author:

Diane Stanley is the author and illustrator of beloved books for young readers, including The Silver Bowl, which received three starred reviews, was named a best book of the year by Kirkus Reviews and Book Links Lasting Connections, and was an ALA Booklist Editors' Choice; The Cup and the Crown; Saving Sky, winner of the Arab American Museum's Arab American Book Award and a Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year; Bella at Midnight, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year and an ALA Booklist Editors' Choice; The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy; The Mysterious Matter of I. M. Fine; and A Time Apart. Well known as the author and illustrator of award-winning picture-book biographies, she is the recipient of the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children and the Washington Post-Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award for her body of work.

Ms. Stanley has also written and illustrated numerous picture books, including three creatively reimagined fairy tales: The Giant and the Beanstalk, Goldie and the Three Bears, and Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. dianestanleybooks.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0060000082
• ISBN 13: 9780060000080
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1