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Everyone loves Goldilocks’ hilarious online videos, but in her quest to get more likes, more laughs and more hits, she tries something a little more stealing porridge #pipinghot, breaking chairs #fun, and using someone else’s bed #sleep. What will Daddy Bear do when he sees that online? A hilarious cautionary tale for a new generation of internet-users from the prize-winning partnership of Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross.

32 pages, Hardcover

Published May 1, 2019

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Jeanne Willis

494 books102 followers
Jeanne Willis was born in St Albans and trained as an advertising copywriter at Watford College. She worked for various agencies creating press adverts and TV, cinema and radio commercials. She is now a full-time writer and has published over 80 books. Her hobbies include gardening, reading (non-fiction), natural history and collecting caterpillars. Jeanne has also worked on scripts for TV, including POLLY POCKET and THE SLOW NORRIS, and a pilot TV series for DR XARGLE. She lives in North London with her husband and two children.

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Profile Image for Whispering Stories.
2,896 reviews2,605 followers
January 27, 2020
Book Reviewed on www.whisperingstories.com

#Goldilocks is a cautionary tale about a young girl craving attention online. The book is told in a friendly rhyming style and features a young Goldilocks first trying to impress people with her selfies, then by capturing funny moments and sharing them with her followers. Eventually, she feels that she needs to up her game and enters the woods where she finds a cottage in which three bears live.

Any book that teaches children to be cautious online is a good idea and should be used to educate children about how not to use social media and how it can all go wrong very quickly.

I am a little unsure whether having the story told in a picture book is actually aiming for the right audience as my understanding is that picture books tend to be read more by children in the 3-6-year-old range and I don’t believe this book is aimed at children so young. I do know that social media channels have a minimum age of 13 for their users – Yes, I know younger children are using them, I’m just not convinced many kids younger than 6 will be.

The illustrations are amusing and do capture the plot perfectly, plus I like all the images including Goldilock’s mobile phone and the posts she is putting online as this gives the reader more of an understanding of what kind of pictures she is posting.

I’m also not comfortable with what happened to Goldilocks when it was discovered she had broken into the bear’s cottage, ate their food, broke their furniture and took amusing photos of herself committing a crime. I don’t think the punishment would be enough to deter a child from thinking that what she did was good for capturing pictures to show to her followers. I was shocked that the book ends quite abruptly too, I feel that the story still had more to tell and educate.

Overall, the book is fun, it involves a classic tale that most children will know and uses it to inform children of how not to use social media.
Profile Image for Matti Karjalainen.
2,937 reviews57 followers
March 1, 2019
Kultakutri päivät pitkät
jakoi someen kuvia
myös videoita postasi
sai siitä suurta huvia [...]

Millä saisin näkyvyyttä?
aprikoi hän huolissaan.
"Vähän lisää räväkkyyttä
postauksiin kai tarvitaan".

Lähimetsän laitamilla
näkyi mökki tyhjillään
Hän sisään sinne murtautui
ja selfien otti hyvillään.


Jeanne Willisin ja Tony Rossin "#Kultakutri" (Mäkelä, 2019) jatkaa samaa rataa kuin tekijäkaksikon aikaisempi kuvakirja Pukkien pikku pila, eli hupaisan satumukaelman välityksellä opetellaan internetin ja sosiaalisen median oikeaoppista käyttöä.

#alakoulut #kirjavinkkaus?
Profile Image for Tapani Aulu.
3,552 reviews15 followers
November 12, 2020
Modernisoitu versio kultakutrista toimi oikein mainiosti. Minkä nettiin laittaa, sen netistä löytää.
Profile Image for Katri.
812 reviews89 followers
February 26, 2019
Kiva kuvakirja, joka liittyy somettamiseen. Kertoo siitä, miten joskus saattaa päätyä tekemään typeriä juttuja vain saadakseen paljon tykkäyksiä somessa... ja siitä, miten jutut saattaa jäädä someen ikuisiksi ajoiksi.

Aika kevyt ote. Olisi voinut jotenkin alleviivata, että sometykkäykset eivät määrittele ketään jne. Lisäksi vähän mietin kenelle tarina suunnattu, koska kuvakirjat stereotyyppisesti ajatellen menee pienille lukijoille, joilla toivon mukaan ei vielä somet käytössä.

Mutta eskarilaisille ja 1.-2. luokkalaisille suosittelisin, sillä meneehän kuvakirjat heillekin. Voisin ottaa osaksi vinkkausta!

Kiva linkki klassikkosatuun löytyy.
Profile Image for Shane Harcombe.
1,243 reviews16 followers
March 20, 2020
I applaud the idea, getting children to think before they share online, but I'm not sure this story will have any impact. Rather than seeing Goldilocks arrested/punished/friendless for her actions, I wish it had shown appropriate ways for her to seek friendship & validation.
67 reviews
October 11, 2019
This book is amazing for linking to internet safety. This book teaches children the importance of being careful about what you post online and teaches this in a fun child friendly way.
Profile Image for Cat Strawberry.
702 reviews19 followers
May 19, 2020
This is a brilliant picture book with a well told story and a good message about online safety. ‘#Goldilocks A Hashtag Cautionary Tale’ is about A4ish in size and is filled with thick glossy pages of illustrations and text. Goldilocks wants to be popular, she wants everyone to like the pictures she puts up on Instagram, so she starts taking pictures of things that make everyone laugh. But soon her followers aren’t interested in her pictures anymore and to keep them looking she starts to do more daring things to get likes. But what will happen when she dares to do something in the house of the three bears?

This is a really fun retelling of the Goldilocks story, beginning with Goldilocks desperate for more attention and ‘likes’. The whole story is told in a constant rhyme which I really enjoyed as it really made the whole story both more fun and the message more clear to understand. Like many young people (and older people too!) Goldilocks becomes desperate to be liked on Instagram so she takes pictures of as many things as possible. But when she heads over to the house where the three bears live, she causes a lot of damage, just like in the original tale, and decides to share that damage by taking pictures, selfies, and sharing them for the whole world to see…including three bears.

I like the fact that this story is cautioning children against being so free and open to taking pictures of themselves or their lives and sharing everything online. The bears know who caused all the damage to their home precisely because Goldilocks took selfies when doing them and in the end her actions catch up to her. The story is obviously trying to warn children about the many dangers of sharing too much personal information online (especially selfie pictures) as you never know who is watching or what trouble you could be in. While the story features the original tale Goldilocks, the ending is different and a striking one which I liked. I have seen a reviewer say they didn’t like the shock ending, but I don’t think it’s that shocking and instead it’s a great ending that again warns kids of the dangers of sharing online without sounding too scary.

The ending is good, it rhymes so well and I will add a spoiler to say that Goldilocks does face punishment for what she did, but I like the added part that points out that things sent out online don’t always go away. That message is one that children really do need to understand in this world today where so many people are so open to sharing their entire lives online. The pictures are really good, I actually like the style of illustration, it’s very engaging, fun and I like the way the bears look. The funny images do make the story more all the more fun to read.

I really do like this book, the rhyme is really good and fun and engaging all on its own, and the illustrations give a fun feel to the whole tale, but it’s the message behind the story that really makes me like this book so much. Children are taught to be careful about sharing too much online, but it’s done in a great and fun way using the traditional Goldilocks story. The book feels so fun to read on its own, and despite the obvious safety message (which is good), it’s still ultimately just a fun new take on the Goldilocks story and one I have really enjoyed.
-Thanks to Andersen Press for a free copy for review.
Profile Image for Kathleen Dixon.
3,912 reviews66 followers
March 19, 2020
One of my granddaughters is a little bit of a worry - of course, you never know, plenty of kids you think are going to be difficult teens actually end up just fine (I'm keeping my fingers crossed). We homeschool them, and have recently started getting the two girls to Video their Journal writing using prompts that they must hand-write first. They're doing it totally within our closed system, but who knows when they might start asking if they can do "real" vlogs. So, when I read this book today (off the shelf at the bookshop), I thought it might be a good idea to read with them.

This is a clever take on Goldilocks, with the girl getting so caught up in a desire for internet popularity that she breaks into the house of the Three Bears and thinks it's a good idea to upload shots of herself in the process of stealing and vandalising . . . you know the story. It also has a really strong caution at the end, because we all know that what you upload to the web is going to hang around forever!
Profile Image for Nichola Theobald.
166 reviews
November 6, 2023
Alice (age 5) says "I like that book because it's kind of like funny rhyming and it's very funny but anyway the three little bears got her to do jobs and that was fun fun fun funny. She was very very very silly and she couldn't do nothing but do jobs the bears said and she was a very naughty baddy. I got this book from the Library in town with Rosie."

Evelyn (age 8) says "I think that her Mum is funny and I like the pictures of her in her fairy wings. I find that the baby with jam is quite funny and I like when Uncle Richard fell over and farting ferrets made me giggle. Little kid with silly habits made me feel funny because he's on the potty, and I find it's very funny when the ginger cat was on a bicycle. I recommend you should choose this book. This book would be good for children and it teaches people to not wander into somebody's house, otherwise you'll get in detention, really badly".

Mummy (age 37) says "I really enjoyed reading this book to my children, the pictures were great and I loved the rhymes. A lovely take on a modern Goldilocks".
305 reviews3 followers
December 4, 2020
This is a great modern take on a traditional tale, which is entertaining but also has an important message which makes it suitable to use with slightly older children in lower KS2. In this story, Goldilocks shares all her adventures on her phone which ends up getting her in trouble, and as they're all posted online she can't take them back which means people think she's unkind. It could encourage children to think about what they share online, but it's kept light-hearted through the bright and fun illustrations and rhyme. This makes it a brilliant book to introduce online safety for children so it would be great to use in the classroom.
Profile Image for Mediathecaire en Doc.
104 reviews1 follower
December 12, 2020
Je ne vais pas vous faire un résumé de l'histoire parce qu'en fin de compte c'est un album dont la quatrième de couverture suffit largement pour cerner l'histoire.

L'album est vraiment super, c'est un coup de coeur pour cet album qui détourne un conte connu de tous et conté tant et tant de fois. Mais ici il est particulièrement intéressant de voir la manière d'approche de l'auteur, exprimer ce que la vie que l'on donne à voir et les actions réalisées derrière un écran ont comme répercussion dans la vie réelle.

La suite de ma chronique c'est sur le blog ->

https://mediathecaireendoc.wordpress....
Profile Image for Jenna.
2,964 reviews42 followers
February 24, 2019
Upea moderniversio Kultakutresta ja kolmesta karhusta! Samalla kun tuttu satu tuodaan nykyaikaan, lapsille opetetaan myös modernin elämänmenon käänteitä; "sen minkä nettiin laittaa, se siellä myös pysyy" -opetus on varmasti tällä 2010-luvulla ihan tarpeen oppia jo kuvakirjoista.

Tony Rossin kuvitus on hauska, Raija Rintamäki on pannut parastaan riimitellessään käännöstekstin kirjaan ja Kustannus Mäkelä on julkaissut jotain hivenen tyylistään poikkeavaa. Tai no, onhan tässäkin "söpöjä" eläinhahmoja...
Profile Image for Laurie Hnatiuk.
384 reviews
February 23, 2020
Another one to add to your digital citizenship units using a new spin on Goldilocks.
In this be version we have Goldilocks who is trying to gain “likes” on social media. As she becomes more focused on just getting the approval from her increased followers she finds she has to constantly “up her game” to the point where she breaks into the bears house capturing it online for her followers which lead to consequence both immediate and long term.
Lots to unpack in this familiar tale told in rhyme and a helpful teaching tool.
Profile Image for Becky B.
8,111 reviews125 followers
September 15, 2021
A retelling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears in which Goldilocks is obsessed with getting likes on social media and in an attempt to get attention, breaks into the Bears' house.

I like the message to think before you send. I wish this had done a better job of getting to the root of the issue. I did like that in this version of the tale, Goldilocks actually has to make repairs to the Bears' home. This is definitely aimed at middle grade readers. I don't know many parents who let lower elementary have phones let alone social media.
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361 reviews16 followers
March 20, 2020
A brilliant twist to the classic Goldilocks and The Three Bears. I read the first page and I SCREAMED. Internally of course! I’m a sucker for picture books that rhyme and this book did! An excellent cautionary tale about social media, the need to be approved by your followers and the obsession with getting likes. Would recommend it to primary school children - much relevant for them!

Pspspsp this is an awesome author/illustrator duo!!!
Profile Image for Nicola.
3,359 reviews
May 12, 2020
Miss 5 really enjoyed this modern take on the Goldilocks story. I've often told it with some kind of community service at the end so that fitted right in with this version!

Miss 5 and I like to explore different books and authors at the library, sometimes around particular topics or themes. We try to get different ones out every week or so; it's fun for both of us to have the variety and to look at a mix of new & favourite authors
Profile Image for Alisha.
34 reviews
July 11, 2022
A clever twist on an old fairy tale. I'm going to use it for our grade 2, Fairy Tale innovation as well as for our cyber safety unit in Digital Technologies.

I read it to my 9-year-old son, and even he got a good chuckle, although he said he'd only give it 4 and a half stars because there are a lot of obvious rhyming patterns, and he has come up with some more creative ones. I'm also happy about this because any discussion about literature makes my heart swell with pride!
Profile Image for Engel Dreizehn.
1,754 reviews
December 31, 2019
This is one of the most hilarious takes on the Three Bears I have ever seen! Especially that ending and how taking selfies/pics of everything is kind of a bad idea! Phone addict parents and adult in general should read this!
Profile Image for Debra.
971 reviews
July 23, 2023
Goldilocks really likes her online presence, but takes it a bit too far in this version of the well-known tale.

Students will learn a bit about the dangers of internet addiction in this story. I cannot stress enough the importance of books like this one!
Profile Image for Evelyn Theobald.
6 reviews1 follower
November 19, 2023
I love the pictures and I think this is a really good lesson for those who go into peoples houses and take pictures and send it to everyone. That is not good, they should be punished for that and that’s a lesson. It’s a really good book, I hope you will read this #pipinghot
Profile Image for Rebecca Caufman.
2,340 reviews5 followers
August 6, 2019
Clever adaptation of the original tale where Goldilocks learns some important lessons about posting on the internet.
Profile Image for Christina Reid.
1,212 reviews79 followers
November 7, 2019
The perfect way to introduce or start a discussion about online safety with children. Will be using this in our computing lessons!
54 reviews1 follower
November 14, 2019
A play on the classic story to highlight the importance of online safety and taking care online
Profile Image for Claire Spurling.
40 reviews
February 19, 2020
An amazing little book warning children about the lasting effects of their online profile and posts. A must for anyone with concerns about internet safety.
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