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Frequent collaborators Barnett and Klassen serve up a delectable rendition of the oft-retold folktale. The bare-bones narrative “clip clops” along with abundant humor and plenty of verbal delights, repetition, and rhyme (“Who seeks to reach the grassy ridge? / Who dares to walk across my bridge?”) as the brash, blustery bully of a troll gleefully lists all the ways he loves to eat goat.
What stands out to guest poster Shoshana Flax about The Three Billy Goats Gruff, illustrated by Jon Klassen and humorously retold by Mac Barnett, is the multitude of ways it uses the space available to it.
Book returned to New York library was 63 years overdue By (0) Wisconsin resident Betty Diamond mailed a book back to the Queens Public Library in New York 63 years after she checked it out. File photo by Valkr/Shutterstock March 17 (UPI) -- A woman who checked a book out from a New York library in 1957 mailed the overdue volume back to the facility with a $500 donation. Ol' Paul, the Mighty Logger, a collection of Paul Bunyan stories by Glen Rounds, from a Queens Public Library branch in 1957. Advertisement Diamond said the book ended up lost among her own books, and she came across it over...