Beware of the Bears!

It is the fashion to twist old tales, and now it is the turn of the three bears in this picture book version to get nasty and take revenge on Goldilocks. MacDonald's Mummy, Daddy and Baby Bear are a family of troublemakers looking for an excuse to do their worst. They track Goldilocks to a house in the woods and, while she is out, wreak havoc: tangoing on the table, pelting each other with breakfast cereal, soaking the bathroom and clouting each other with pillows - all to an ironic refrain of 'This table's too slippy', 'But this sofa's just right'. So ... 'they all jumped on the sofa and did the bossa nova.' Williamson captures the good natured anarchy perfectly. What a self satisfied bunch of bears they look when Goldilocks comes back and finds the mess. They are not so happy when they find out who the house actually belongs to. As the publisher's blurb might have put it, A Clockwork Orange for 7-9s (just kidding).