Goldie and the Three Bears Contributor(s): Stanley, Diane (Author), Stanley, Diane (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0061136115 ISBN-13: 9780061136115 Publisher: HarperCollins OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2007 Annotation: In this spirited new version of a classic fairy tale, Goldie is a determined heroine with a mind of her own. Can she help it if everyone she invites over is too bossy or too boring? What Goldie desperately wants is a friend she can love with all her heart. And one day, she finds one who's just right. Full color. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Friendship - Juvenile Fiction | Fairy Tales & Folklore - General - Juvenile Fiction | Classics |
Dewey: E |
Lexile Measure: 500 |
Physical Information: 0.14" H x 8.12" W x 10.96" (0.43 lbs) 40 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Friendship |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 72364 Reading Level: 2.6 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In this spirited new version of a classic fairy tale, we meet a determined heroine with a mind of her own. Can she help it if everyone she invites over is too bossy or too boring or too snobby or too rough? What Goldie desperately wants is a friend she can love with all her heart. And one day, she finds one who's just right. |
Contributor Bio(s): Stanley, Diane: - 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. |