Three Billy Goats Gruff: A Norwegian Folktale (Easy-to-Read Folktales)

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Summary: Billy Goats?
Review: Classic folktale in easy to read style by Scholastic.

The Three Billy-Goats Gruff took ten minutes to read through for my son. We did stop and look at illustrations here and there, but my son was not too keen on them to begin with. There is a lot of repetitive lines in this story about the three billy-goats that trip and trap over the bridge, one at a time tricking the troll in the process. All three bill-goats have the same name, Gruff, but their appearances are different allowing the reader to identify each billy-goat.

They all have bells around their necks, but the horns are shaped in other ways as well as the color of their fur in varying shades of brown. The billy-goats were going " up to the hillside to make themselves fat". The exact reason why was not given so if you have an inquisitive child you may have to expand on the folktale to speed the flow along. In order to get to this hillside they needed to cross over a bridge, where below an ugly Troll " with eyes as big as saucers and a nose as long as a poker" lived.

My son had never heard the term "Troll" before and wanted an example of what eyes like saucers would look like. If anyone has ever worked with autistic kids you will find this often because they need examples in order to grasp the story, otherwise they take most of the details quite literally. When the billy-goats started the journey to the hillside the youngest crossed over the bridge first. In a rather loud voice, " WHO'S THAT tripping over my bridge? Roared the Troll." My son had difficulty with the word "roared" each time he came upon it. I changed my tone to show him what roared would mean, allowing him to continue further with the book, The Three Billy-Goats Gruff.

The billy-goats did get very fat at the hillside, so much so they could not walk back home again. One more sentence that was hard to decipher for my son, " And if the fat hasn't fallen off them, why, they're still fat". I find it hard to explain how fat falls off of someone and did not attempt to try that one. His reaction was this was one silly book and eagerly placed it back in the book packet and into his backpack for tomorrow. I agree this was an interesting choice for homework reading.


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Summary: The three billy goats gruff- a norwegian folktale
Review: I am a preschool teacher for three year olds and they all love this book. They ask me to read it over and over again. They love the colorful drawings and the silly voices I add to the characters.

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Summary: Three Billy Goats Gruff - A Norweigan Folktale
Review: This book has captured my two year old's imagination. The simple text and entertaining drawings have him enthralled. He's read it so many times he now reads it to me.

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Summary: "The Three Billy Goats Gruff"
Review: This story really doesn't have a big moral point. But it does show the difference between how a child, adolescent and an adult handle a situation. The first goat who is the child wants the grass like he wants candy and he'll even sacrifice his brother to get just like a child in the real life would do. The second goat who is the adolescent is bigger but steal doesn't know how to deal with issues and still does the same thing he would have done if he was a child. The third goat who is the adult knows how to deal with problems he faces them and he's not afraid of them. Overall this story is good story and does have point if you search for it.

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Summary: "The Three Billy Goats Gruff"
Review: This story really doesn't have a big moral point. But it does show the difference between how a child, adolescent and an adult handle a situation. The first goat who is the child wants the grass like he wants candy and he'll even sacrifice his brother to get just like a child in the real life would do. The second goat who is the adolescent is bigger but steal doesn't know how to deal with issues and still does the same thing he would have done if he was a child. The third goat who is the adult knows how to deal with problems he faces them and he's not afraid of them. Overall this story is good story and does have point if you search for it.