Classic Children's Fairy
Tales


7 Topic: Listening/Speaking
Standard: Communicates effectively when using descriptive language, relating experiences, and retelling stories read, heard, or viewed.
Topic 2: Listening/Speaking
Standard: Listens and responds to a variety of literary forms.


The Three Billy Goats
Gruff


Paul Galdone was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1914. Paul emigrated to the United States in 1928. He studied at the Art Student League and the New York School of Industrial Design after he came to the United States. After he finished his schooling, Mr. Galdone worked in the art department of a major publishing house. In the art department, he was introduced to the process of bookmaking. Mr. Galdone illustrated almost three hundred books, many of which he himself wrote or retold. Paul Galdone died in 1986. Today Paul remembered for his contemporary style, bright down-to-earth humor, and action-filled illustrations, which will continue to delight for generations to come.
His version of the story "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" is very similar to the many other versions being published today. In this classic childrens fairy tale, there are three strong willed goats. These three goats want to go across a bridge to a greener pasture. Under the bridge lived a mean, nasty troll who guarded his bridge and did not let anyone past over . One day the goats try to pass over the bridge.





What do you think happens to the three goats?

What do you think happens to the mean troll?


Lesson Plan for The Three Billy Goats Gruff






    Gail Carson Levine grew up in New York City and has been writing al her life.  Her first book for children, Ella Enchanted, was a 1998 Newberry Honor Book.  Gail and her husband David live in a two-hundred-year-old farmhouse in the Hudson River Valley.  Ella Enchanted is a fourth to fifth grade level chapter book version of the classic fairy tale Cinderella.  One estimate states that world wide there are more than 1,000 versions of the Cinderella story.  In the story Ella is given the gift of obedience by a fairy.  Ella soon realizes that this gift is truly a curse to her, for how can Ella truly be herself if someone tells her to cut off her fingers and she would have to obey.  She will not accept the fate that the fairy has cast to her so Ella takes a quest to brake the curse and find out the person she truly is.




What are some things that you think that Ella and Cinderella will have in common?

At the end of the story do you think that Ella will be as fortunate as Cinderella was?