The Three Billy Goats Gruff

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Price
$18.99  $17.66
Publisher
Orchard Books
Publish Date
Pages
48
Dimensions
8.5 X 11.1 X 0.47 inches | 1.15 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781338673845

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About the Author
JON KLASSEN is an animator and Governor General's Award-winning creator of children's books. His book This is Not My Hat won both the American Caldecott Medal and the British Kate Greenaway Medal, making Jon the first person to win both awards for the same work. Jon was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and currently resides in Los Angeles. MAC BARNETT is the New York Times bestselling author of many picture books, including the New York Times bestseller The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse; the Caldecott Honor Book and E.B. White Read Aloud Award-winner Sam and Dave Dig a Hole; and the Caldecott Honor Book and Boston Globe-Horn Book Award-winner Extra Yarn. He is also the coauthor of the bestselling Terrible Two series with Jory John. Mac lives in Oakland, California.
Reviews

Praise for The Three Billy Goats Gruff:

* It's hard to imagine a more appropriate pair of picture book rascals to remix this famous fairy tale, a series-starting retelling, than collaborators Barnett and Klassen. -- Publishers Weekly, starred review

* This inaugural offering in Scholastic's new fairy-tale series... sets the bar high and will be a favorite read-aloud among kids. Picture-book superstars Barnett and Klassen are known for their stellar collaborations, and their many fans will be waiting to snap this up. -- School Library Journal, starred review

The Three Billy Goats Gruff feel so organic, the Norwegian folk tale reads like a retelling born of the oldest soil. -- New York Times Book Review

This is the first volume in a planned Scholastic series of fairy-tales, cheekily told (and illustrated) anew. -- Wall Street Journal

This wickedly funny take will leave children clamoring for more. -- Bookpage

Fans of either Barnett or Klassen will love this retelling. -- Kirkus Reviews

Praise for Mac Undercover (Mac B., Kid Spy #1):

A New York Times bestseller

An Amazon Best Book of 2018

* Barnett and Lowery bring the funny to the serious art of espionage in a perfect interplay of text and illustration... Barnett interweaves tidbits of global history fit for trivia lovers, while Lowery's comic-style images play a key role in the humor... Told with a sense of nostalgia for 1980s history and pop culture, the silliness and originality of this book will hook young readers. -- School Library Journal, starred review

Praise for The Impossible Crime (Mac B., Kid Spy #2):

A New York Times bestseller!

Barnett opens his casebook again -- this time to solve a classic locked-room mystery... Almost every page contains Lowery's illustrations, loosely drawn and garishly colored in green and orange, which give the whole affair a zany feel that is much enhanced by the narrative with its running gags. Kudos to a pint-size Poirot, pre-Mustache! -- Booklist

Barnett and Lowery team up again in this second outing of international espionage mystery with royal overtones... this is a nifty mystery for young readers and a worthy sequel to the first. -- Kirkus Reviews

Praise for Mac Barnett:

[Mac Barnett is] a great young writer of books for young people. If you haven't read his work, run somewhere and do that. Books for young people have a rich and I daresay limitless future -- knock anyone who says otherwise into a ditch -- and Mac has a central place within that limitless future. Don't bet against him or anyone like him. -- Dave Eggers

[In Barnett's books] there is no magic solution to any problem: The characters stumble through their dilemmas just as every one of us does. The world is a difficult yet good place, and there is no need for the typical rose-colored lenses that other children's books put on situations in order to fend off the bad stuff. -- Yiyun Li

He is a believer that picture books can have Swiftian absurdity and untidy endings, and that 'life is absurd, and kids know that.' -- The San Francisco Chronicle

Praise for The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse:

Barnett and Klassen's collaborations are always good for a laugh, and this one banks heavily on absurdity, to great effect. This original pourquoi tale will make a fantastic choice for storytimes, as kids will want to dance along with the duck and mouse -- when they're not rolling in the aisles, of course. -- Booklist, starred review

Praise for Shape trilogy:

* Klassen's palette is quiet, his weathered backdrops are elegant, and his comic timing is precisely synched to Barnett's deadpan prose. Whereas the humor in Sam and Dave Dig a Hole was subtle and sly, this shape showdown is pure, antic buffoonery. -- Publishers Weekly, starred review

Praise for Sam and Dave Dig a Hole:

* When Sam and Dave dig a hole, readers get something spectacular. The boys, on the other hand, do not. Their quest to find the spectacular brings them painfully and humorously close to buried jewels as they spade their way into the ground, accompanied by an intrepid canine companion. -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review