Gordon Loggins and the Three Bears - Softcover

Bailey, Linda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550743899 ISBN 13: 9781550743890

Publisher: Kids Can Press, 2001

Synopsis

A picture book for children

About this title

About the Author

Linda Bailey is the award-winning author of numerous children’s books, including Stanley’s Party, Stanley’s Wild Ride, Stanley at Sea, the Stevie Diamond mysteries and The Farm Team. Linda lives in Vancouver.

From Publishers Weekly

In this lumbering Goldilocks send-up, young Gordon Loggins slips through a door on the library bookshelf and encounters a trio of bears who fumble his name ("Golden Lockens") and prod him into starring in the story-hour selection. Bailey's (the Steve Diamond mysteries) tale has amusing moments (e.g., Gordon hates porridge, and the bears must sprinkle it with chocolate chips in order to get him to "eat it all up") and readers may get a kick out of the mistaken identity shtick. However, the overwritten text is saddled with a surfeit of coyness (most of the gags are telegraphed in excessively broad strokes). Walker's (How Much... Is 1,000?) buoyant illustrations have a retro flavor, and she knits the pages together cleverly with a recurring bumblebee motif. Unfortunately, her efforts can't salvage the heavy-handed script. Ages 3-7.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Kids Can Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1550743899
• ISBN 13: 9781550743890
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Walker Tracy