`Once upon a time, there were three bears...' There begins one of the world's favourite stories. In this new and original version by Val Biro, the bears are presented as real bears. They live in a cave (although a fully-furnished house inside) and they run on all fours. Goldilocks is portrayed as a modern little girl, the kind of person who might get excluded from school because of her appalling behaviour. Val Biro is one of the most popular children's books illustrators in the UK, and Oxford University Press has already published more than a dozen of his picture books.