(1) K-3 Illustrated by Barbara McClintock. In this take on the Ukrainian folktale, Aylesworth's polished text shows its storytelling roots with perfect pacing, precisely chosen details, and participatory repetition. In McClintock's energetic pictures, the mitten is red, giving a splash of color to each illustration as the animals squeeze themselves in; the explosion of the mitten after the little mouse enters is spectacular.

Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2009

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Barbara McClintock & Barbara McClintock. The original brazen Goldilocks is here a proper old-fashioned girl who simply forgets not to do what her mother tells her not to do. Routed by the returning bears, Goldilocks runs home to her mother resolved "never, ever [to forget] not to do what her mother [tells] her not to do." While Aylesworth turns the traditional, all-in-fun nursery tale into a coy lesson in doing as mother says, McClintock gives new life to the Goldilocks/Three Bears face-off.

Reviewer: | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2003