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He aims his humour at kids and at adults, and provides not one, but TWO morals of the story. The more you can ham this stuff up, the better. The three Dinosaurs went Someplace Else and were definitely not hiding in the woods waiting for an unsuspecting kid to come by. One day for no particular reason, the three Dinosaurs made up their beds, positioned their chairs just so, and cooked three bowls of delicious chocolate pudding at varying temperatures. He pokes fun at the absurd premises of the story: Well, now we’ve got a Mo Willems volume to add to our collection of funny spin-offs, and it’s fabulous. We read ’em all, and compare and contrast tellings and illustrators’ styles and language and quality.Įven more fun is following them up with a fractured version of the canon: The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig is a particular favourite. I have written before about how in these parts, we check out a stack of the same fairy tale from the library each week, each book with a different telling and illustrator. More rejoicing!! It’s a fractured fairy tale!! Rejoice! There is a new Mo Willems book out.
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