Dusty Locks and the Three Bears

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Summary: I Got a Standing Ovation
Review: I am an elementary art teacher and I checked out this book from my school library to read to my 3rd grade classes before they started work on fairy tale puppets. We all loved it! So I brought it home for my husband and my infant son. My 10 month old sat through the book with out a peep -except for giggles- over and over again. So we bought it for my husband for father's day. I am ordering more books by this author right away. It is just so fun to read it with a southern drawl and do all those crazy bear voices! I also love the illustrations. The characters have great facial expressions! I LOVE THIS BOOK! BUY IT RIGHT AWAY!

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Summary: Incredible!
Review: I am an elementary art teacher and I checked out this book from my school library to read to my 3rd grade classes before they started work on fairy tale puppets. We all loved it! So I brought it home for my husband and my infant son. My 10 month old sat through the book with out a peep -except for giggles- over and over again. So we bought it for my husband for father's day. I am ordering more books by this author right away. It is just so fun to read it with a southern drawl and do all those crazy bear voices! I also love the illustrations. The characters have great facial expressions! I LOVE THIS BOOK! BUY IT RIGHT AWAY!

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Summary: You gotta get this book!!
Review: I found this book on vacation and it immediately became a favorite in our home. You will not get tired of reading this one! Great for classroom use as well.

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Summary: A Classic
Review: In Dusty Locks and the Three Bears, there is a similar storyline to Goldie Locks and the Three Bears. It starts out with this cleverly created girl who is always getting into trouble and getting dirty. There are a lot of similar things that happen in the story that resemble Goldie Locks. First off they have three bears, a small cub, a mama bear and a great big grizzly bear. Each of them has their own chair and their own plate to eat from. The twists that make it different from Goldie Locks are cute and add spice to the story. Such as the different chairs that each of them have. Like the great big grizzly bear, he sits on a great big stump. Then instead of porage, they have beans. That is where Dusty Locks comes into play. The three bears go for a hike while their food cools, and Dusty Locks stumbles upon their house. She goes in and tries the three different kinds of beans, then she goes and sits on all the chairs until she sat on the small cub's chair and broke it. She then decides to go upstairs and see what's up there. She finds their beds, a pile of twigs and branches for the great big grizzly, a big hard bed for mama and a nice soft bed for the small cub. She sleeps there until the three bears come home and find everything tore up. She jumps up and flies out of there and never to be seen again. This book was very funny and is a good twist of Goldie Locks and the Three Bears. I had a chance to read it to some kids and they loved it. All the little funny changes and twists made it an enjoyable book to read. They maybe could have change the storyline some more to make it more original, but it still was successful in being funny.

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Summary: I Got a Standing Ovation
Review: One of the five year olds in my Pre K class gave me a standing ovation after I read this and the rest of the class listened intently. Fun to read and fun to hear! A must have.

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Summary: An Old Favorite With a Little Spunk.....
Review: You all know the story. Three bears go out for a walk while their food cools. A little girl arrives and makes herself at home, finally falling asleep. The bears come home, find her and frightened, she runs all the way home. Susan Lowell doesn't veer far from this familiar old storyline, but she adds some spice, zip and western flair to make it special. Dusty Locks hasn't had a bath "for a month of Sundays", is pretty fragrant from chasing skunks and is a no-good little outlaw who's run away from home without even kissing her mother goodbye. She literally blows onto the scene in a cloud of dust and does her best to wreak havoc on the bear's little house. And when she's finally discovered and heads back home so fast "the dust didn't settle for a week", her mother is waiting for that "dirty little desperado" with some big surprises of her own..... Ms Lowell's vivid character descriptions and clever text, full of witty, wild west, laugh out loud language makes this a wonderful read-aloud story and Randy Cecil's charming and humorous artwork just adds to the fun. Together, they've taken an oldie but goodie of a story and made it even better. Perfect for youngsters 4-8, Dusty Locks And The Three Bears is a winner and a book kids will want to read again and again.