YUMMY: Eight Favorite Fairly Tales

YUMMY: Eight Favorite Fairly Tales:

Illustrated and Retold by: Lucy Cousins.

Candlewick Publishing, 2009

29 pages

Traditional Literature

I choose to read this book due to its silly title. The book contains eight retold classic fairy tales such as “Little Red Riding Hood” and “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”. Each story is told both more skimpily and slightly more moderately than the original versions. However, even with mild action and name changes each story keeps its same basic idea and flow.

For the illustrations, Lucy Cousins used gouache to create bright simple childlike drawings. Due to the nature of the drawing I personal felt they brought new life to the original characters. The text in the book is very informally placed for Cousin used different fonts and font sizes throughout the book.

YUMMY: Eight Favorite Fairly Tales has not won any awards, but It has been recognized as a New York Times Book Review 10 Best illustrated children books. Do to the simplicity of this story I would recommend this story for children ages 3 and up. If used in the classroom this story could be used for a lesson on sequence of events, morals, and phonics. For older children I would have them create their own picture books, like Lucy Cousins, about their favorite classic fairy tale.