Coleen Salley's version, Who's That Tripping Over My Bridge?, is a straight forward telling of the original tale with the insertion of a new setting. Here the three billy goats named Gruff live on the plains of East Feliciana Parish, but they want to go up to the hills and hollows of West Feliciana Parish to make themselves fat. The author notes at the bottom of the very last page, "The Gruffs are descendants of the Gruff goats that migrated from Norway in the nineteenth century."

Amy Jackson Dixon adds some humor via her illustrations with tennis shoes, a canister, and a scout cap on the first goat, fishing attire on the second goat, and rootin' tootin' cowboy outfit on the biggest billy goat. Her brilliantly-colored, albeit wild-looking, troll is just scary enough for this audience. Each time the troll shouts the title refrain, it is depicted in huge multi-colored letters. The busy brightness of the artwork seems reflective of Mardi Gras.

Cathrene Valente Youngquist has taken more liberty with the original story for The Three Billygoats Gruff and Mean Calypso Joe. Litte Billygoat, Williegoat, and Captain Bill E. Goat live in the Caribbean on Split in Two Island. As one might guess, if they wish to cross to the other side of the island, they must cross a bridge guarded by a cranky troll named Calypso Joe. He and the goats speak with dialect but the storyline is the familiar one. The troll's roar when the goats attempt to cross the bridge is, "I am Calypso Joe, de meanest troll dis part of de island. Nobody cross dis bridge, but first he pay de toll!" She ends the story with a somewhat reformed troll who occasionally needs to be dumped back into the ocean.

Sorra's illustrations for this book are filled with lots of greens and blues, most appropriate for the setting. The troll is meanlooking but not frightening with his seaweed hair and bulbous body. Most of the text is on white space with the illustration above or beside it, making reading easy. Thought must have been given to reading ease because on the double page spreads where the text is on the illustration, the green is lighter.

Storytellers and book readers - and their listeners - will enjoy these two new additions to the folklore collection.