Margaret E. Hyde

This book was fascinating, it's a recreation of the classic, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, but with three banana slugs and an ant named DreddieLocks. Banana slugs produce the stickiest slime in the world so you could imagine their house was beyond sticky. Throughout the book, DreddieLocks was trying the slugs food and trying out their beds, but everytime he went to try a new thing the old one would stick to him! For example, when DreddieLocks tried the first bowl of "gruel," it was too hot, so he moved on to the next, but the spoon of the first gruel was stuck on him because of the slime! I thought this was a great idea to add to the story. I also liked the end, you would think that the enormous slug, Ooey, would be mean and try to keep DreddieLocks trapped in the house, but that wasn't the case. Ooey just laughed at DreddieLocks because he had spoons, bowls, and mushroom beds stuck to his body. Ooey decided that since DreddieLocks made him laugh he will allow him to stay in the house and eat dinner with them and they all lived "slimily ever after." At the end of the story, Hyde added a few facts about banana slugs and ants which helped me figure out why everything was sticking to DreddieLocks! This book did an excellent job at recreating the classic story by adding a funny twist to it where the children learn something at the end about the banana slug and ants.… (mehr)