The Horn Book | Review of The Three Billy Goats Gruff
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.