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Ada, Alma Flor Tryon, Leslie, Illustrator

Yours Truly, Goldilocks

32 pp. January, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-689-81608-1

(4) K-3 In this epistolary companion to 'Dear Peter Rabbit', Goldilocks, Red Riding Hood, Baby Bear, Peter Rabbit, and the three Pigs correspond about the Pigs' upcoming housewarming party. The letters weave bits from each characters' folktale into the story; the elaborate illustrations provide plenty of detail (camouflaged wolves are spying in many of the pictures), but two wordless spreads of the climactic party scene interrupt the story's pace.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.