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Age: Primary
Genre: Folklore
Media: watercolors and ink
Review/ Critique: This is a twist on the Goldilocks Euro-American folklore using shapes that do or don't work for different things. Goldilocks in this story is meant to be the great-great grandchild of the original Goldilocks but in this case everything is shape-related. ( )

In "The Silly Story of Goldie Locks and the Three Squares", a modern Goldie Locks visits the cottage of the three squares. She encounters various shapes during her stay. This story mirrors the traditional Goldie Locks and the three bears. As this Goldie flees, the book says "But she still remembered this: The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. So Goldie Locks ran straight out the door. And she never circled back."

Goldie Locks has a habit of walking into people's homes. Within these homes she finds shapes! Shapes such as triangles, rectangles, circles, pentagons, and squares.