Golden Goose (Modern Curriculum Press Beginning to Read Series)

By Margaret Hillert

Book Overview

Retells the tale of the golden goose that caused the king's unhappy daughter to laugh. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813650518
• ISBN13: 9780813650517
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Modern Curriculum Press
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

"Golden Goose" is an Excellent Beginners' Reader!

I suspect that Margaret Hillert is a under-used resource by parents. Why? I don't know, because I have seen little in the way of beginning readers as interesting as hers. And I have to admit, they have prompted an interest in reading in my daughter (recently turned five) that the 'Bob' Books and 'Dick and Jane' did not, could not, do. (There is just something about the classic fairytales that attract young children's enthusiasm.) If you don't remember (I had forgotten --LOL) the story involves a princess that just isn't happy. Her royal parents try a number of things to get her to smile, but nothing works. They then proclaim that whomever makes her smile can marry her. Meanwhile, a young man gains the favor of a little-old-man who leads him to a tree that contains, in it's heart, a magic goose. The boy is told to take the goose to the princess, which he does. But on the way a variety of people get stuck to the goose, so that by the time he arrives at the castle, he and his cadre are such a funny site that the princess can't help but laugh. HOWEVER, having said all of this. You don't get this entire story in the Hillert version. This is a reader afterall and the story is highly abbreviated. An example of text follows: "You do not look happy, little one. We want you to look happy. What can we do for you? Here is a ball to play with." There are 57 words used in the telling of the "Golden Goose". Most are of the you, do, not, happy, little variety. Larger, more difficult words are guess and something. Four Stars. An interesting reader for young children. My only caveat would be that you get the 'whole' story from the library first. The reader doesn't tell the entire, complete story as clearly.