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The Bully Goat Grim: A Maynard Moose Tale

Name: The Bully Goat Grim: A Maynard Moose Tale
Author: Willy Claflin
ISBN: 9780874839524

by Willy Claflin, James Stimson (Illustrator)

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Overview

From the award winning creative team who brought you The Uglified Ducky, winner of the 2011 Texas Bluebonnet Award, and Rapunzel and the Seven Dwarfs comes the latest fractured fairy tale from Maynard Moose. The story has high flying bunnies, rude noises and a grammar lesson you’ll never forget. What more could you ask? An audio CD? OK, it has one of those too. In the wacky world of Maynard Moose, storyteller Willy Claflin brings us Bully Goat Grim who has a case of “Random Hostility Syndrome.” He meets his match in Baby Troll. Her heart is pure, her mind is sharp, and she knows how to handle a bully! In addition to the Fractured Moose English glossary, there are Grown-up Words included to help everyone follow the action.

About the Author, Willy Claflin

Willy Claflin became an instant success at the twenty-ninth annual National Storytelling Festival, completing a meteoric rise to fame over about thirty years. He is an accomplished songwriter, guitarist, and singer, as well as a teller of original and traditional tales of audiences coast-to-coast. James Stimson lives in northern California. He has worked in feature film animation, notably James and the Giant Peach, and is the author and illustrator of Thirteen O'Clock as well as the first two Maynard Moose Tales. This reclusive artist is believed to be a large hairy biped with enormous feet.

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Kirkus Reviews

Storytellers and Maynard Moose–lovers celebrate! There's a wonderfully wacky new folksy tale for you. Maynard (Rapunzel and the Seven Dwarfs, 2011, etc.) tells of Bully Goat Grim, a goat who is suffering from "Random Hostility Syndrome," which causes him to lower his horns and head-butt cute, fluffy forest creatures. The kindly, though strange, troll family that lives under the bridge takes his challenge--"Beware, beware, the Bully Goat Grim! / Nobody better not mess with him!"--personally, but neither daddy troll nor mommy troll can decide on a way of dealing with the interloper. Luckily, baby troll knows her grammar and comes up with a clever plan that thwarts the goat's meanness and uses his Random Hostility Syndrome as a source of entertainment. The moral? Learn your grammar and "demember-- / nobody likes a dubnoxious beasty." Claflin peppers his tale with such moose-isms as distremely and angrify, and his Northern Piney Woods amunals include busterflies. There is also some impressive vocabulary on display--trajectory, apogee, process, soporific, synergistic--and, of course, the whole concept of the double negative is at the heart of baby troll's solution. Stimson's illustrations are as droll as ever, his characters full of personality, and spreads that are packed with details will require repeat readings to uncover them all. Between the moose dialect and the story's twist, this may not be one of your grandmother's tales, but even she won't be able to resist a few chuckles. Hysterical. (audio CD) (Fractured fairy tale. 7-12)