Everyone knows what happens in this story. Nobody expects it to look like this. Jan Brett retells Goldilocks in her signature style, where the borders of every page carry a second story running alongside the first, and the bears' cottage is furnished down to the last carved spoon.

It is the version that rewards a hundredth reading, because a child who has the words memorized starts hunting the margins instead. Oversized, richly printed, and durable enough to hand down. This is the fairy tale edition that stays on the shelf long after the paperbacks have gone soft.

For a much younger listener, the same bordered pages come in board: The Hat: Oversized Lap Board Book, Brett's hedgehog story in an oversized lap edition graded 1 to 3 years.

Jan Brett's newest is on the shelf too: The Christmas Sweater, a hardcover published November 2025, in which a boy takes his grandmother's hand knitted sweater and his pug out to Echo Lake and loses both the sweater and the way home.