The Three Billy Goats Gruff--The Full Story

by Richard Jackson (Author) Katherine Tillotson (Illustrator)

The Three Billy Goats Gruff--The Full Story
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

The classic tale of the Three Billy Goats Gruff gets a cheeky twist in this picture book retelling.

Trip trap, trip trap. "ACH! Who is that tap-tap-tapping on my bridge?" The story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff and the way they outwitted a hungry bridge troll is one of our most well-known fairy tales...but how exactly did it become so? It turns out, the cleverness of the Brothers Gruff isn't limited to tricking trolls--they are also genius self-promoters! (Keep those goats away from Instagram!) Find out the rest of the story in this wily retelling.

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An immensely entertaining retelling, trip-trap!

Richard Jackson
Richard Jackson was a long-time editor at Atheneum Books for Young Readers and the critically acclaimed author of a number of books, including Have A Look, Says Book., illustrated by Kevin Hawkes, which Publishers Weekly proclaimed "a shoe-in for the bedtime rotation;" All Ears, All Eyes, illustrated by Katherine Tillotson; and This Beautiful Day, illustrated by Suzy Lee, which received three starred reviews.

Kevin Hawkes has illustrated more than forty books for children, included the New York Times bestseller The Library Lion, Weslandia, Michael Ian Black's A Pig Parade Is a Terrible Idea, and Santa in Cincinatti. He lives in Southern Maine, where he can be found wandering aimlessly in his garden, unless forced indoors, where he creates imaginary landscapes with cobalt blue skies.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781481415736
Lexile Measure
590
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Atheneum Books
Publication date
September 01, 2020
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV013070 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Siblings
JUV012040 - Juvenile Fiction | Fairy Tales & Folklore | Adaptations
Library of Congress categories
Folklore
Fairy tales
Norway
Goats

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