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So you think you know the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears? Find out what happened before the fairy tale began!

When Mama Bear and Papa Bear invite Goldilocks to stay, they hope that she will be a good influence on their naughty son. But Little Bear doesn't like this Goody Two-Shoes, and Goldilocks thinks he's un-BEARable! This humorous peek at what happened before the famous fairy tale began is packed with novelties, including a pop-up Three Bears' house, that bring the story to life.

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Billy [is] an absolutely unforgettable creation. One of the most critically acclaimed YA authors working today, Almond refuses to rest on his laurels, and here he delivers his finest book in years.
--Booklist (starred review)

Skellig-creator Almond's books are always mystical--close to the warm, dark heartbeats of man and beast--but this one, spelled mostly phonetically to show how Billy Dean might actually have written it, is perhaps even more raw, sensuous and savage. Dark, unsettling and fluid as water, Almond's suspenseful tour de force considers the cycle of life, themes of war, God and godlessness, and, as ever, "How all things flow into each other."
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

[A] mesmerizing post-apocalyptic tale... [T]he novel speaks feelingly to the love between parent and child, as well as the harm parents can do.
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Billy's ability to find surreal beauty in strange things, such as the dead mice he lovingly dissects in his room, hearkens back to Almond's treatment of Skellig and Heaven Eyes, and the message is also similar: wonder and loveliness can be recovered from the ashes of the festering evil. Billy's innocence doesn't save him from that evil, but his steadfast ability to find goodness, beauty, love, and mystery in the darkest places lights the way forward, for himself and readers alike.
--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Almond's earthy mysticism is made especially potent by uneducated Billy's eccentric, phonetic spelling and poetic imagination. "The pensil wanders across the payper lyk a little beest creepin hoaplesly across the rubbl," he writes of trying to shape the narrative of his own life--a story filled with Roman Catholic imagery, violence, affection, sorrow for the dead, and a profound, appreciative wonder for nature. Rich, dense, and memorable.
--The Horn Book

Like many of David Almond's novels, his latest dark masterpiece transcends the everyday world to exist in a mystical landscape all its own. ... The author challenges his readers with phonetic spellings, which, along with a deft use of magical realism, build a world that--like so many that Almond creates--is both darker and more wondrous than our own.
--Shelf Awareness for Readers

Darkly gripping and rife with foreboding. ... A dense and chilling read, it will appeal to older teens who liked "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner and "Room" by Emma Donoghue.
--The Horn Book

Like many Almond books, this is magical, mystical, mysterious, and meaningful.
--Library Media Connection

[A] postapocalyptic, psychological novel... The compelling story is told from Billy's point of view and with the language and phonetic spelling of a child whose development has been stunted by his lifelong imprisonment.
--School Library Journal
From the Back Cover:

I wos a secrit shy and tungtied emptyheded thing.
I wos tort to read and rite and spell by my tenda littl muther & by Mr McCaufrey the butcha & by Missus Malone and her gosts.
So I am not cleva, so please forgiv my folts and my mistayks.

I am the won that glares into your harts & that prowls insyde yor deepist dremes.
Wonce I was The Anjel Childe. Now I am The Monster.

Just read and lissen and take note. Let the words enter yor blud & boans.
I am Billy Dean. This is the truth. This is my tale.

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  • PublisherCandlewick Press (MA)
  • Publication date2015
  • ISBN 10 0763676624
  • ISBN 13 9780763676629
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages272
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