Gordon Loggins and the Three Bears

Ted McGee is an associate professor of English specializing in
children’s literature at St. Jerome’s College, University of
Waterloo.

Linda Bailey wrote this book “as a tribute to public libraries and
story times, and for all the children who step through library doors
into worlds of fantasy, mystery and wonder.”

In this story, little Gordon Loggins steps through a bookcase onto a
forest path that leads him to the home of the three bears. In stepping
into that forest, he steps into a story in which he must play a leading
part before he can return to his friends in the library. But he is no
Goldilocks: he does not like porridge, he cannot break a chair, and he
will not be scared into flight when awakened by growling bears.

Gordon Loggins and the Three Bears retells a familiar story with
amusing, happy results, the happiest being its suggestion that stories
and storybooks exert a magical power over the imagination. Tracy
Walker’s illustrations are skilfully interwoven with the text.
Unifying the book are the ubiquitous honeybees to whom the bears pay
tribute. Recommended.