The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Browne, Anthony

Me and You

32 pp. | Farrar | October, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-0-374-34908-0 $16.99

(1) K-3 In this hauntingly original reworking of "The Three Bears," Goldilocks, walking her neighborhood's mean streets, gets lost. Her life is one of poverty, and her story is told in wordless panels, cramped and claustrophobic, with all the color leached out; the bears appear in soft pastels. Browne hews closely to the folktale's signal events, but the turned-on-its-head premise renders Goldilocks's actions deeply poignant.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2010