Three Bears
The Three Bears, illustrated by Charles Robinson Three Bears is today more known as Goldilocks and Three Bears or simply Goldilocks. This version is older. We'll see why Goldilock is omitted from the title and what else is different from the contemporary variation of the same tale. First of all - this is not a fairy tale because it doesn't possess the crucial elements of the genre, especially the transformation of one or more main characters. It's a story about an intrusion into one's home without fatal consequences. We could classify it as a cautionary tale, but the publisher included it in the book with fairy tales (not the first and not the last such example), so here it is. Charles Robinson made a decorative capital letter for the beginning of the story. The next picture is somehow mysterious. We were already informed about the bear's home, where food was too hot to eat, so they left the house and went for a walk. But in the meantime, somebody comes by....