Author/Illustrator: Paul Galdone
Genre: Traditional Literature
Awards: NA
Age Level: 4-8 years old
Summary: In this Norweigan folktale, there are three Billy Goats that live in the valley. There wasn't much grass for the Billy Goats to eat in the valley so they longed to travel to the hillside where it had a plentiful amount of grass and daisies. In order to get there, the three Billy Goats must travel across a bridge over a river. Under the bridge, lived a mean ugly Troll. The Billy Goats travel one at a time. The first, and also the tiniest, was passing the bridge when he heard the Trolls voice telling him he can't cross the bridge without him gobbling the little Billy Goat up. The next two pass and get the same response, except this time the Troll is furious! The Troll hops over to try to eat the Billy Goats when the big Billy Goat grabbed him by the horns, trampled him with his hooves, and threw him over the bridge. Finally, the three Billy Goats made it across the bridge into the land of grass and daisies.
Illustrations: The illustrations took up mostly the whole page while leaving room for the texts. The goats resembled real life Billy Goats. The Troll had yellow teeth and a scary mane of hair.
This story would be fun to use for dramatic play in my classroom. I would have costumes for the students to reenact the story. This would be fun for the students as well as being an indicator for the teacher to see how well they comprehended the story.
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